Quotes about Opportunity

The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

When it comes to God] We can't run out of second chances...only time.

Even our deepest disappointments will ultimately prove to be gatekeepers for future delight.

America is too great for small dreams.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.