opportunity quotes

Every wall is a door.

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

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.

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

America is another name for opportunity.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

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.

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

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

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

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

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

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

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 want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

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

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

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

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 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.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

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

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

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.

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.‘

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

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

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

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.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

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.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.

Let the path be open to talent.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

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.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

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

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

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.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.

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?

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

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.