Opportunity Quotes

One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

The New Right, in many cases, is doing nothing less than placing a heretical claim on Christian faith that distorts, confuses, and destroys the opportunity for a biblical understanding of Jesus Christ and of his gospel for millions of people.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!

Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Whether you make the most of an opportunity depends on if you are prepared. Learn your craft, every aspect of it. Eat it, drink it, sleep it, then when you are the most prepared, you can make the most of it.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

The market system requires that people be committed and willing to work hard. Inherent with that is what I call a merit system, which I think gives people the greatest opportunity.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.

Sometimes it's interesting to see something that you're not used to seeing, which is the main ingredient of life, and it's removed from the usual entertainment. I think it's important to give the opportunity to people to witness the life of somebody who was not public.

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

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

I believe success is preparation, because opportunity is going to knock on your door sooner or later but are you prepared to answer that?

When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.

I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.