Opportunity Quotes

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winner...

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your ...

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never...

When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity

If you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first."This is another way of saying that if you h...

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarati...

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing someb...

A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstra...

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practica...

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect...

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams c...

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opp...

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to ...

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I wa...

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligati...

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another b...

I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat...

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a t...

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we...

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for th...

There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a l...

One of the things I most admire about America is they have created a genuine melting pot society, a ...

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time w...

We emerged out of nature, and when we die, we return to nature. We need to know there are forces imp...

We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would den...

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given...

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with gr...

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is ...

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for al...

To have the opportunity to lead the Solicitor General's office is the honor of a lifetime. As you kn...

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives...

Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire cr...

Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner r...

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is no...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and a...

The universe is full of doors.

Don't sit with your back to any doors.

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can suc...

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those t...

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into th...

Before I ever knew what the word Entrepeneur was, I realized in America and in the Western part of ...

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

There's a funny thing about fame. The truth is you run as fast as you can towards it because it's ev...

The devil tempts us not; 'tis we who tempt him, beckoning his skill with opportunity.

One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that ...

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They jus...

We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of mac...

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. Histo...

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that...

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospita...

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and trav...

Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed ...

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed do...

I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a demo...

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity ...

A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, ...

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, A...

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilig...

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooli...

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and th...

When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight...

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan o...

The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who ...

Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring pros...

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips...

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me,...

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated ...

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years wo...

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu...

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volum...

Moving right alongIn search of good timesAnd good news,With good friends you can't lose.This could b...

I bought new strings of colored lights. This served as a profession of faith in the future. I take t...

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard...

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use...

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of...

Democracy is a way of life controlled by a working faith in the possibilities of human nature. Belie...

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; th...

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and ...

I'm a big believer in pairing classics with contemporary literature, so students have the opportunit...

Master of human destinies am I.Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait,Cities and fields I walk...