For Opportunity Quotes
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
What is the one bright spot on the entire horizon that would give someone an opportunity to be retrained to learn new skills? Direct selling.
I've been very lucky to have had the opportunity to play a diverse cast of characters in the short time I've been a voice actor.
To have an opportunity to make a movie like Cabin Fever, you have to get stuff thrown on you or you have to fall into a pit of water. It brings you that much closer to your mindset as a character.
By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.
Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.
Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace.
If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world.
Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.
There are unlimited opportunities for display advertising. In fact, we're in the process of massive change in the display industry - how it's bought, how it's sold, and how it's targeted.
I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.
What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done.
Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.
Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.
Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.
We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.
It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
When kids are young, before the age of ten, there is a critical window of opportunity when their habits and motivations can be influenced.
Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.
Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
To manifest prosperity, you have to redefine yourself from a recipient to a co-creator. You have to stop looking for opportunities to present themselves and start creating them.
The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
America is still the land of opportunity for most, but it is not a land of opportunity for all. If we are to remain an exceptional nation, we must close this gap in opportunity.
We will reject interesting opportunities rather than over-leverage our balance sheet.
Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.
Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
