Opportunity quotes

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

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.

For me, I'm just trying to be the best at what I do. I'll wave an Asian American flag if I get that opportunity. I'm not hiding or trying to discredit my background or anything, I just haven't had the opportunity.

Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.

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.

So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. A very select few have that opportunity so when you do have the opportunity you know, those guys take advantage of it.

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work.

Land of opportunity, land for the huddled masses where would the opportunity have been without the genocide of those Old Guard, bristling Indian tribes?

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality of result. It's equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

When there's an opportunity to do more, we must.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

When you have the opportunity, you strike.

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

Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

There is far more opportunity than there is ability.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.

I had the opportunity to do what I enjoy.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

I'm for everyone having the opportunity to accept a $150,000 bribe.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

They gave me a second opportunity and 45 years later I'm still here.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

The opportunity is often lost by deliberating.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know.

Every Canadian who wants to learn should have the opportunity to do so.

To me, success is choice and opportunity.

I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.