May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Partnering with Atlantic Records creates the opportunity to take what we’re doing to the next level, without compromising.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

To despise no opportunity of usefulness is a leading rule with those who are wise to win souls.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn’t be in this business.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

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.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Let the path be open to talent.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Opportunity makes a thief.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

When written in Chinese, the word ‚crisis‘ is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Talking isn’t doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

This healthy eating stuff, it’s here to stay, and we now have everything we need to seize the opportunity and give all our kids the healthy futures they so richly deserve.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

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!

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

My success rate speaks for itself.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.