Opportunity Quotes

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

I love the fact that I'm having an opportunity to make people laugh and you actually get to hear it.

Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.

I’ve seen - both in myself and my competitors - how satisfaction can lead to a lack of vigilance, then to mistakes and missed opportunities.

I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.

Government doesn't have to be the enemy, but too much government has produced a new kind of inequality in America: opportunity inequality.

I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.

This is all for Naieya (daughter), man. I will be a champion one day, I promised that to her.....And now that I have this opportunity I can't let her down.

America is another name for opportunity.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Sometimes a perceived obstacle is just an opportunity in disguise.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Enmity is anger watching the opportunity for revenge.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

Do not miss the opportunity of offering even a single drop into the ocean of merit or a grain atop the mountain of the roots of beneficial activity.

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

To have this opportunity, in light of my familys struggles, made me want to create something lasting and relevant.

It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

Opportunities are abundant, but most people are afraid to do the work

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Where one door shuts another opens.

Basketball came to me and for some reason it gave me an opportunity to live a life that I didn't dream possible. But it did let me live my dreams.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes in a day.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not a lack of ability and a lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

It is imperative that we do not fear challenges that we have attracted to promote our growth. Every obstacle we encounter is an opportunity for spiritual evolution.

Opportunity looks a lot like work...

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person.

There's a real opportunity to have a vertical takeoff and landing electric supersonic jet.

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.