Opportunity Quotes

I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.

Accepting both the opportunity and the responsibility evokes a great deal of humility.

The people of Iraq are grateful for what the people of the United States of America and our armed forces and our coalition forces are giving them the opportunity to do.

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.

I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision.

I think our biggest problem in society is we're headed more and more toward a two-tiered society. That is, creating welfare for the wealthy and destroying opportunities for the disadvantaged.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

Over the near term there is clearly the opportunity to work with Microsoft to do to a better job of creating a more secure Windows experience for users around the world.

The real advantage for me is that I have the opportunity to lead worship every Sunday.

Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

Even if you want something so badly, without talent, you can't even get the opportunity. You remain as the chorus for the rest of your life.

Everybody in America has to be part of a shared sacrifice to create opportunity for greatness again for our people and our country.

God is a God of endless opportunities to do good; the God of the open door.

Luck is opportunity met by preparation - and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice.

Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.

The opportunity for greater courage comes in the most ordinary of moments.

The lower you start, the more opportunities you have.

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

I believe the sense of lost opportunity is rooted in a faulty understanding of God's grace. Likewise, when grace is grasped and embraced, the Land of Opportunity becomes yours again.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

The film was fair to his musical achievement and gave him every opportunity to explain himself.

For many years, I believed racism in America was dead and that opportunity existed for all. My beliefs were shaken when the Rodney King officers were acquitted.

Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Put simply, there are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it.

We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.