Opportunity Quotes

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

~ Ira Sachs

'Utopia' is a positive and constructive program that gives people the opportunity, if you can start all over again, start from scratch and create laws and make decisions, will you be able to build a society that is better than the one we have; will it be chaos or happiness.

~ John De Mol

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the other, the conviction that such equal opportunity will most advance civilization.

~ Louis D. Brandeis

When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.

~ Martin Scorsese

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

~ Guy Laliberte

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

~ Nas

It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.

~ Brock Osweiler

Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

~ Francis Collins

We will invest in our people, quality education, job opportunity, family, neighborhood, and yes, a thing we call America.

~ Dan Quayle

I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

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

~ Jim Rohn

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

~ Herbert Croly

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

~ James W. Black

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

~ Louise L. Hay

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

~ Sam Raimi

Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

~ Marc Benioff

If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning.

~ Craig Sager

Each time you go to the grocery store with your kids, it is a potential learning opportunity. In order not to overemphasize materialism, focus on other things to do with money. In 'Beyond the Lemonade Stand,' I try to emphasize the importance of saving money, and of using it to help other people.

~ Bill Rancic

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

~ Satya Nadella

All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

~ Xenophon

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

~ Anna Neagle

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.

~ Tarja Halonen

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

~ Bernie Sanders

Growing up the way I grew up, food was scarce. So when you had an opportunity to eat, you ate. When I graduated from high school and went to college, I weighed 160 pounds. So, I knew I had to put on the weight. I ate everything from fried food to fried chicken wings. When I came to Green Bay, I did the same thing because I was 172 pounds.

~ Donald Driver

America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.

~ Parker Palmer

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

~ Hippocrates

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

~ James E. Faust

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

~ Jane Wyman

Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.

~ S. Truett Cathy

Projects are usually undertaken to either solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity. The probability that the project - even if precisely executed - will complete on time, on budget, and on performance is typically small. Project management is utilized to increase this probability. So in a sense, project management is risk management.

~ Bruce Pittman

So during those first moments of the day, which are yours and yours alone, you can circumvent these boundaries and concentrate fully on spiritual matters. And this gives you the opportunity to plan the time management of the entire day.

~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

~ Jennifer Lopez

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

~ Amelia Earhart

Today, the growing economic and social pressures in our country are putting millions of women, children and families at increased risk of abuse and neglect, especially when families are denied basic support services and economic opportunity.

~ Robert Casey

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

~ Ayn Rand

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

~ Fred Rogers

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

~ Eliyahu Goldratt

If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

~ Tim Wise

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

~ Chesley Sullenberger