Opportunity Quotes

My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

I want women to have all the opportunities that they aspire to.

It is a curious quirk of human nature that some people can see opportunities, while others only see problems.

I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship.

The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.

FDI is a responsibility for Indians & an opportunity for the World. My definition of FDI for the people of India is 'First Develop India'.

You will see India as a country of opportunities, unmatched across the world. India can be a role model of growth and cohesiveness for the rest of the world.

I am not from a political family. I never had the opportunity to meet the world leaders earlier.

I got an excellent opportunity to learn and understand democratic values early on. And it shook me. This played a significant role in making me what I am.

To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that opportunity before. That's exciting.

What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is there, and taking it when it comes.

Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.

Anything that forces the human soul to scream out and fight really brings out the best in us, and to have an opportunity to portray characters like that is inspiring.

The United States of America became the envy of the world because we welcomed the best and brightest minds from anywhere on the planet and gave them the opportunity to succeed.

My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.

I wish that people had an opportunity to watch me 24/7, like on 'Big Brother.' You'd see a person who is quiet and reserved and very analytical - a huge observer.

All that appears in your life is a blessing, presenting you with a greater opportunity to define who you are, and to know yourself as that.

We have taken a physical identity so that we may express our divine identity. And every moment in our life provides us with an opportunity to do that.

I collect puppet stuff. I have a puppet workshop in my garage. I was looking for any opportunity to be able to get very creatively involved in that world.

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented, it's just about this opportunity - it's just about when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

I've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up.

The Shield made me realize there were great opportunities for writers in TV.

I expected to get drafted. I knew that I wouldn't get drafted on that first day due to the fact that not a lot of people had the opportunity to see me play much.

I look at rap as an opportunity to act. My head is full of different characters - in each song I'm auditioning a character.

I love Malcolm Lee and jumped on the opportunity to work with him as a director.

The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.

I'm inspired by it all - the good and the not so good - because every experience is an opportunity for me to learn, grow, and become the best version of myself.

Well, when you have an opportunity to build a show around one of the greatest detectives in all of literature, you're going to jump at that opportunity.

Brainstorm new interfaces that could introduce opportunities or threats to your business.

There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do more to help achieve such ends.

It also seems beyond controversy that moral responsibilities are greater to the extent that people "have the resources, the training, the facilities and opportunities to speak and act effectively."

For punches I never really choose, I take whatever opportunity is given to me. If it's a left, I'll take it. If it's a right I'll take it.

I have always said 'yes' to opportunities and experiences.

In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.

By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.

After six wonderful years playing Emily Prentiss, I have decided it's time for me to move on. As much as I will miss my Criminal Minds family, I am excited about the future and other opportunities.

My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.

I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

To every trend there is a counter-trend. There are a number of pendulums operating and each creates new business opportunities.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

As your career progresses, you hope that you get some more opportunity, or some more choice.

If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can teach as well as lead.

The pastors and ministry leaders came away energized to have voter registration drives at their churches and motivated to encourage their congregations to "vote their values."