Quotes on Opportunity

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.

As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give orders, to command, but I had the opportunity to call people to volunteer. In my period of presidency, I never heard the word 'no.'

We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.

I wasn't allowed to leave Romania. That made me mad. You just want your freedom. You want your space. You want opportunity.

Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.

Some degree of inequality in income and wealth, of course, would occur even with completely equal opportunity because variations in effort, skill, and luck will produce variations in outcomes.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

We talk about women in football like we are not entitled to the same opportunity and the same access.

And that's how we build the economy of the future. An economy with more jobs and less debt, we root it in fairness. We grow it with opportunity. And we build it together.

If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

When they call you and say, 'So you want to play 'Black Panther?'' if you know what 'Black Panther' is, there's no way in the world you're going to say no because there's a lot of opportunity for magic to happen.

The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

I want variety. I want versatility. Otherwise, I'm wasting the opportunity of being an actor, which is all about variation and change.