Opportunity Quotes

I feel like if we're blessed enough to be given talent, to be given an opportunity, then why not take that opportunity and make it for someone's betterment you know?

The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.

Opportunity does not always knock twice. You have to make some of your own opportunities and you have to go in and grab those.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

The last I heard from my destiny, it wanted me to make a legal U-Turn at my next opportunity.

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.

University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.

If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation.

I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.

The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors.

If you sleep,you will miss the OPPORTUNITY to be successful

I've got the opportunity of a lifetime. Some great things are happening because of momentum and I'm just trying to seize the moment.

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.

In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.

As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.

Understand that a problem is only a problem if you choose to view it as a problem (vs. an opportunity).

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

We must open the doors of opportunity. We must equip our people to walk through those doors.

I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.

In the hurdles you have ten opportunities to improve; that's what's so cool about it.

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

I always hold out hope. Mediation is an opportunity for each side to present their case, and for us to get back to the table again.

I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Now the opportunity to destroy the USSR has arrived.

It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her.

It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.

I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lecture on The Darker Side of Chocolate

As comedians, we have the opportunity to convey a message that will have an effect. The best can make you laugh and cry, the way musicians and actors can.

I just am grateful for every opportunity to go to work. I don't really focus on celebrity status.

Instead of waiting for opportunities to be handed to us, we need to create them. We need to advocate for ourselves.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.