Wendy Davis Quotes

There are people a lot smarter, a lot more talented than I am, people who've accomplished things I can only imagine. Often, they started from the most humble of circumstances. That's my message: freedom and opportunity. That's the American Dream.

This is America. Success is not guaranteed.

That's the spirit of America, right? Anybody from any background can make it anywhere with enough hard work.

'America' is synonymous with opportunity.

The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Freedom is the core of all human progress. It believes that nothing's given to us, but if you're willing to work hard. If you're willing to compete, the American dream is there for you.

My family's story isn't special. What's special is the America that makes our story possible. Ours is a nation like no other, a place where great journeys can be made in a single generation. No matter who you are or where you come from, the path is always forward.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

Anything is possible for anyone in America.

My parents both came to the United States from the Dominican Republic, and they were deeply grateful for the opportunities this country provided. They raised my siblings and me to want to make a difference and give back. They taught us to work hard and aim high, but to also make sure the ladder was down to help others climb up.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.

That's the beauty of America - the fact that all of us can be anything we want to be if we put in the work.

This is America. In our country it doesn't matter a lick where you are from, it only matters where you're going.

The American Dream is simple: it's the unwavering belief that anybody - you, me, your friends, your neighbors, grandma Verna - can become exceedingly successful, and all it takes is the right amount of work, ingenuity, and determination.

The American Dream means any person can achieve prosperity through hard work and ingenuity because there are no inherent barriers in our society.

I won't stop until every Iowan has an opportunity to succeed.

One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.