Opportunity Quotes

It's crazy how the world evolves and the audience gives you an opportunity to really grow and live out your dreams.

~ Luis Fonsi

'The Cut' is going to give someone the opportunity of a lifetime and help that person achieve his or her dreams.

~ Tommy Hilfiger

We live in America where each and every person has the equal opportunity to take their iPhone or a smartphone and create something and put it online and have the equal ability to blow up and be successful. It's a tool I hope we inspire tons of people to pick up and go after their dreams.

~ Todrick Hall

I think everyone has dreams, and it's just how you go about pursuing that. And I think anybody can do anything that they set their mind to. So if you set your mind to do something, and you exhaust every opportunity, I think you're going to get there.

~ Josie Loren

Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.

~ George Takei

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

~ Henry Ford

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

~ Lily Tomlin

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

~ Gary Ryan Blair

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

~ Gary Ryan Blair

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

~ Douglas Coupland

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

~ Kristin Armstrong

Because of my job, I get a lot of opportunity to grab a few days here and there in many cool cities for press commitments, magazine shoots and premieres - Barcelona, Madrid, Rome, Paris, Stockholm, New York, Berlin. I always try to get to a gallery or museum if there's time.

~ Natalie Dormer

I make no secret of the fact that writing She-Hulk can serve as an opportunity for me to sneak in some really cool characters that I personally love. Some will be obvious fits, but others will come out of left field - but that's what's fun about the Marvel U - the bench is deep.

~ Charles Soule

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.

~ Rick Atkinson

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

~ Jim Rohn

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

~ Armistead Maupin

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

~ Bobby Unser

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

~ Mike Singletary

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.

~ Greg Louganis

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.

~ Jerry Jones

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

~ Elon Musk

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.

~ Tim Tebow

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

~ Martina Navratilova

Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

~ Buzz Aldrin

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

~ Buzz Aldrin

The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

~ Gavin Newsom

By giving material expression to force-forms in space, the Greeks gave divine spiritual beings the opportunity of using these material forms. It is no figure of speech but a fact when we say that gods came down at that time into the Greek temples in order to be among human beings on the physical plane.

~ Rudolf Steiner

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

~ Barbara Kruger

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.

~ Christa Mcauliffe

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.

~ David Cameron

I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.

~ Tristram Stuart

To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.

~ Amber Le Bon

'Bond' was like Christmas: can't wait for it to come around. Being in the films brought me to a global audience, and I have had the opportunity to meet incredible people.

~ Colin Salmon

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

~ Bruce Eric Kaplan

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

~ Jon Secada

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

~ Ken Buck

The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.

~ Jonas Salk

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

~ Thomas A. Edison

The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

~ Lucille Ball