Opportunity Quotes

Consulting offered me an opportunity to see a lot of different businesses in different regions of the world, to see how textiles were being affected by foreign competition, how technology was changing.

~ Mitt Romney

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

~ Michael Leunig

I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

~ Yves Behar

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

~ Louis V. Gerstner

I made physical objects because I know how to do something on the computer. That struck a chord with me: Most women of my generation have grown up with technology but lack the handmade creative skills of former generations. This is a big opportunity to fill that gap.

~ Brit Morin

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.

~ Kyle Chandler

My dad was very excited about me doing 'Laguna Beach,' and he thought it was a great opportunity. My mom, however, living in Chicago, was a little nervous. I mean she had some reservations about MTV. I think there was a point in my life where I wasn't even allowed to watch MTV!

~ Kristin Cavallari

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

~ Mitt Romney

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

~ Richard M. Nixon

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

~ Mitt Romney

There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

~ Frances O'grady

We need an equal opportunity society, one in which government does not see its job as picking winners and losers. Where do you go if you want special favors? Government. Where do you go if you want a tax break? Government. Where do you go if you want a handout? Government. This must stop.

~ Bobby Jindal

In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.

~ Oprah Winfrey

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

~ Billie Jean King

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.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

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.

~ Michelle Obama

Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

~ Ed Markey

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

~ Bill Frist

We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.

~ Jesse Williams

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

~ Nicholas Kristof

I went to school for special education. I always assumed when I had the opportunity I would love to try and help kids with disabilities.

~ Clay Aiken

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

~ Ernie Fletcher

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.

~ Earl Warren

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

~ Tyler Hamilton

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

~ Clay Aiken

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

~ John F. Kennedy

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

~ John Burroughs

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

~ Hamza Yusuf

The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

~ Ben Sweetland

Deprived of the opportunity to judge one another by the cars we drive, New Yorkers, thrown together daily on mass transit, form silent opinions based on our choices of subway reading. Just by glimpsing the cover staring back at us, we can reach the pinnacle of carnal desire or the depths of hatred. Soul mate or mortal enemy.

~ David Rakoff

Building a house from scratch in the middle of a field is a bit like building a prototype car. As with all prototypes, if you're building a car you usually have the luxury of producing several prototypes before you arrive at the production line version - so the opportunity for changing things is quite rich.

~ Kevin Mccloud

Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.

~ Mahmoud Abbas

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

~ Aaron Rodgers

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

~ Lewis Grizzard

I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

I had the opportunity to go into the hospitals and talk to kids and see a kid and make him smile. Why? Because I'm a special person? No. It had nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with me being the quarterback at the University of Florida. And to not take advantage of that is a shame.

~ Tim Tebow

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good, like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

~ Russell Baker