Opportunity Quotes

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

Sometimes those fears creep into the back of your head, but then you slap yourself and think, 'Oh, woe is me! People actually like me.' What a silly thing to worry about. This is a huge opportunity, and I'm excited.

I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

The House has passed several bipartisan bills to ensure all Americans have the opportunity to secure a good job to provide for their families. All of these jobs bills deserve the support of our Senators and a strong show of leadership from the president.

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

There's no one actor in particular that I want to model my career after, except for the people who have been able to keep their career varied and who choose things that interest them. That opportunity is all I really want.

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

We will attract more people to Kentucky by lowering our income tax rate. In fact, lowering the income tax rate is the single most important thing we can do to create opportunity.

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.

I didn't need clothes. I was allowed the opportunity to act out moments you don't get the opportunity to experience in your own life, let alone as a character in a film. I didn't feel naked.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

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

If you scratch below the surface and ask what really makes me tick, it's the liberalism of trying to promote freedom and opportunity. Promoting social mobility is one of the keys to that.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.