Opportunity Quotes

People who other people value get job offers, they get opportunities, and they get encouragement all because they are valued.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.

However well I return, opportunities will probably be few and far and I need to be ruthless.

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

In the enclave, the strong and the physically perfect survived, but if you were strong, you protected the weak until they had an opportunity to grow into their own power.

What I believe in, in terms of getting our economy going again, is that we need to invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

Unplanned pregnancy is an equal-opportunity affliction.

I don't do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I've had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.

I really don't drink, I don't do drugs. I feel like right now I've been given so many opportunities I don't want to mess it up with those things.

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.

I'm starting to get a following on Twitter. That's a really awesome power to have. It gives me the opportunity to make any kind of art I want.

Things are changing. I've been training since I was 9 years old to stretch my wings as an actor dramatically, but have never really been afforded the opportunity to show that.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I love what I do. If I have the opportunity to do what I do with people I admire, it's 10 times better.

I like the opportunity to make films.

I feel so sorry for younger actors who aren't able to have the opportunities that I had, starting out in repertory theatre. It's really tough on young actors now.

The only technology that helps to create a plethora of business and employment opportunity while promoting the green environment, is serving good for the society and, therefore, the sustainability.

I was accorded the opportunity to learn by failing - albeit at the cost of a few honourable teachers' sanity - and now I realise what a rare and incredible luxury that is.

I always felt that the telefilm directors made wonderful films, which are even better than the big screen movies, but never got enough opportunities to showcase their talents on the big screens.

It's exciting to kind of move forward and take hold of the opportunity that "Twilight's" afforded us, but it's also kind of sad.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform. I owe this country a debt I cannot repay.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

I think there are a lot of people in this industry that have the ability, that have the position, they have the opportunity, they have the privilege to call the shots and could do it too.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

That may prevent us from getting a deal done, It is there to be had. Whether ultimately Iran can seize that opportunity - we will have to wait and see, but it is not for lack of trying on our part.

We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece.

State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.

The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all.

The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill.

The opportunity to lecture had restored my good humor.

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

When God gives you some opportunities, it is almost like a process that you do not even realize what is recurring at the moment.

I love any opportunity I have to make music.

I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.

I learned that I'm so busy with what I'm doing, so focused on what I'm doing, that I miss a lot of opportunities for interacting with people.

Now that Serbia is moving towards integration into Europe, the opportunities to get closer cooperation may very well exist.

When you see an opportunity, you practice and work, at least from sunup to sundown.

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn't let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I've decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.