Quotes about Opportunity

America's higher purpose is not just to allow you to have what you want, or to allow me to have what I want. Our higher purpose is to give everyone a fair shot at making their dreams come true. Anything that stands in the way of that will ultimately deprive all of us of the opportunities we hold most dear. For America doesn't belong to any one of us; America belongs to all of us.

Love interrupts the past and opens the future to new probabilities. No matter who you are, no matter how young or old you are, in the present, all things are possible.

The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't, is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present

Wherever you've been, and whatever you've done so far, your entire life was building up to this moment. Now is the time to burst forth into your greatness—a greatness you could never have achieved without going through exactly the things you've gone through.

What appears like a problem is merely a place where a miracle awaits.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

we receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.

If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.

Let go of the old, take hold of the new and believe that 2013 will be your best year yet!

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.