Opportunity Quotes

If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.

The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It's in being missed when you're gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.

Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

I'm healthy and excited to play. And I think this year can be a big year for me if I get the opportunity. I can still play the game. I think I can help a team get to the Super Bowl.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the Lord will help us.

Facebook is great for women and men. We are enormously flexible. We care a lot about great opportunities for women, we push ourselves to make things as flexible as possible.

My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.

I think the show has sort of given me a name in this business and allowed a lot of people the opportunity to see what I can do, and it's just sort of like a sweet starting point.

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

There's so many good things I have to look forward to in life and new opportunities that arise every day because of my association with Michael Jackson. I mean, he is the gift that keeps on giving.

I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.

The strengths of America's international standing continue to be innovation, opportunities and vibrancy.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

I like TV, I feel comfortable there and I'm willing to take every opportunity that's offered to me.

Love them. Save them. Give them opportunity.

There are so many great songwriters that I love and respect, it's an honor to get the opportunity to sing any of their songs.

It just means that your talents lie elsewhere, so take the opportunity to seek out what you are good at, and find a place where you can flourish. Once you do, you’re going to kill it.

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything.

I love acting and I hope I'm fortunate enough to get good, interesting roles and I hope directors and producers will keep giving me the opportunity to act as I really love doing this.

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

An unaspiring person always complaints. There is no end to his complaints. He bitterly complains even when the blessings of opportunity knock at his very door.

I couldn't say no when I received that offer [to re-invent the DC characters]... How can any writer say no to the opportunity of redoing every one of DC's top superheroes?

I defended myself at the first opportunity I had, which was a meeting of writers in which I proved that Honecker had based his whole attack.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

There was a whole army of people who seemed not to have anything better to do than to try to disrupt her life, and , if they were given the opportunity, to correct the way she had chosen to live it.

I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.

They're a redefinition of boredom... the most important thing you need to know about an awards show is where is the nearest smoking opportunity.

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

The pace of change and the threat of disruption creates tremendous opportunities.

I was a better builder than a manager. I'd rather focus on maximizing the opportunities swinging for the fences than minimizing the risk with bunts and singles.

A typical software project can present more opportunities to learn from mistakes than some people get in a lifetime.

I want to continue doing good work where we can expand opportunities for all Americans. That's what we're fighting for.

Work is life. Work is opportunity.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

I think it creates so many more opportunities and pitfalls in that you are treading on fresh snow, so you're in a new place.

I don't have any kind of ideology that precludes me from moving in one direction or another. I just want creative autonomy and I want at least an opportunity that it's going to be seen.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.

We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.