Opportunity Quotes

This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

~ Jacob Degrom

I am thankful to Nichia Chemical Corporation and its founder Nobu Ogawa, who gave me the research opportunity to create a blue LED.

~ Shuji Nakamura

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

~ Mark Harmon

Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one who makes policy. As his wife, I have the wonderful opportunity to advocate for causes that I am passionate about, and I'm thankful for that.

~ Tipper Gore

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

~ Joel Osteen

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

~ Stephen Covey

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

~ Herbert Simon

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

~ Steve Gleason

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

~ H. Jackson Brown

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

~ Henry A. Wallace

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

~ Tom Peters

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

~ Mwai Kibaki

Leadership is... to make sure you never limit the idea or opportunity.

~ Kevin Plank

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

~ J. Donald Walters

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

~ Bill Owens

Rotary provides training at all levels so that those who have been selected for leadership positions have the opportunity to learn and apply leadership principles to their jobs.

~ Ron D. Burton

The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.

~ Wendy Kopp

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

~ Kofi Annan

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

~ Ibrahim Babangida

The Leadership Training Institute of America is a cultural think tank providing training and opportunity in leadership development and cultural dynamics.

~ Michael Burgess

The country has sorted itself ideologically into the two political parties, and those partisan attachments have hardened in recent years. It will take an extraordinary event and act of leadership to break this partisan divide. I thought 9/11 might provide such an opportunity, but it was not seized.

~ Thomas E. Mann

I took some time off after 'Titanic' because I needed to let the dust settle and recharge my battery. I felt, 'OK, you've been given a tremendous opportunity; what are you going to do with it? Now your name can finance movies that you do want to do.'

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

Led by a new generation of edgy sportswriters like Lipsyte, we found new purpose in the great issues of the day - race, equal opportunity, drugs, and labor disputes. We became personality journalists, medical writers, and business reporters.

~ Jane Leavy

The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of the House and has the opportunity in the Senate to gain tractions, and it fixes a part of ObamaCare in terms of repealing an awful tax. And it's got bipartisan support.

~ Erik Paulsen

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

~ Gloria Estefan

The opportunity to declare a truth may come when we least expect it. Let us be prepared.

~ Thomas S. Monson

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.

~ Samuel Johnson

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

~ Michael Franti

Shopping with friends is a great way of still enjoying the thrill of the chase without having to make a purchase. It can also be a real bonding opportunity. Helping your friend find something nice is just as rewarding as helping yourself.

~ Sophie Kinsella

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

~ Al Pacino

A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever.

~ John Roos

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians.

~ Gregory Wasson

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

~ Amartya Sen

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

~ Dave Barry

A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

~ Buzz Aldrin

When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could, I really became enthralled by the philosophical side of space travel and why we need to explore - what it means to us here on Earth - all of those things. I became a huge proponent.

~ Ron Howard

Being in the pop group Eternal gave me the most wonderful opportunity to travel the world, and I have visited some spectacular countries.

~ Louise Nurding

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

~ Derek Blasberg

I want to explore a new place each year, and it can be within India. When I was shooting for 'Mohenjo Daro', I couldn't travel out of the country for two years. But it gave me an opportunity to explore new places within India. I'm sure there are so many places to explore in India, and I would love to go there.

~ Pooja Hegde

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

~ Marc Garneau