Opportunity Quotes

You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.

People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

When I came into boxing, when it was more out of control, no fighters got an opportunity to fight. I came in: everybody got an opportunity to make a living in America.

This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.

The natural state of man is to want to be free. To have opportunities. To have choices.

[Barack] Obama is the great divider, he has totally used race. And it should have been the other way around. He had an opportunity to unify and he didn't do that.

The food world is more crowded these days, but I think that there are more opportunities.

Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

There's something very cool as an actor when you have an opportunity to play somebody who's real, whether they're still alive or not, but who has lived a life.

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work.

When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

I look forward to the challenge, but most importantly, I look forward to the opportunity to do what hasn't been done that often, in a sense. Michael Jordan obviously has done it, but that's it.

I think this is where we're trying to get to eventually as a league too hopefully. To have an opportunity to represent and be a leader of a global brand, for me, it was a great decision.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

I would say, you can never do enough gigs and you can never do enough songs. Make sure that every opportunity you can, play a show and every opportunity you can, write a song.

When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.

I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next.

Agribusiness could provide an opportunity for joint Israeli-Palestinian projects, spurred on by Israeli technical expertise in this field.

Don't stink up the place with bad acting, if an opportunity comes your way.

I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.

They are all alike you know. They hold their tongues for years and you think you're safe, but when the opportunity comes they remember everything.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

I have had many opportunities to flee HK, but I would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law.

The Israel legendary foreign minister, Abba Eban, used to say that the Palestinians had never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity.

I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.

There's not really much of an opportunity for a girl from Georgia like me or a girl like Aja (Evans) from Chicago to grow up bobsledding. I think it's great that we have such a diverse group.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

By investing others with the power to dictate who you are, you rob yourself of an opportunity to truly grow.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

You have to work ceaselessly on your end to digest and imbibe your opportunities or, I have come to believe, they will gradually slip away and knock on someone else's more receptive door.

Now we have to contend with overstimulation and too many opportunities all the time, and too many decisions all the time.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

I feel like I'm giving other people such an opportunity to go and reach for something.

Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role.