Opportunity Quotes

Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

No one would argue against the fact that L.A. leads the country in opportunities for being hip and pretentious.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.

To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.

Out of adversity comes opportunity.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Wherever women are true to their feminine natures and magnify their opportunities for loving service, they are learning to become more like God.

The land of unlimited opportunity was for me, for a long time, impossible to reach. The wall, barbed wire and the order to shoot at those who tried to leave limited my access to the free world.

I was looking for an opportunity to make my first feature, so I asked myself: "What do you want to do? Is there something you can give to the world?"

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.

Even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

A life filled with opportunities and encouragement finds more and more opportunities and encouragement, and success becomes inevitable.

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

Every day you have the opportunity to learn and experience some-thing and some-one new. Seize the opportunity. Learn and experience everything you can, and use it to change the world.

He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

I'll tell you, I think that the Internet has provided an enormous boost to film criticism by giving people an opportunity to self publish or to find sites that are friendly.

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

Film has become a marketed commodity, and the opportunities and audiences for art cinema have grown smaller. There is a general downturn in cultural literacy, perhaps because of television.

I have found after 1.d4 there are more opportunities for richer play.

Equality of opportunity is the essence of social justice.

Luck is an equal opportunity distributor.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol.

Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.

If the opportunity is not out there for you to play it, then you don't see it.

We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.