Opportunity Quotes
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Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A man with a surplus can control circumstances, but a man without a surplus is controlled by them, and often has no opportunity to exercise judgment.
Marshall Field
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I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.
Libby Trickett
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I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.
Jill Hennessy
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It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.
Lauren Graham
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If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
Adena Friedman
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Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world.
Dalai Lama
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God knows the needs of his children, and he often works through us, prompting us to help one another. When we act on such promptings, we tread on holy ground, for we are allowed the opportunity to serve as an agent of God in answering a prayer.
Kathleen H. Hughes
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We have an opportunity with the Model S to refine the design language, the surfacing, and all aspects of functionality.
Franz von Holzhausen
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I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work.
Ashton Kutcher
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One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
Martin Parr
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
Ai Weiwei
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I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to play in the finals of big events, when the season starts you are on the roll constantly and obliged to be committed to daily routines on and off the court.
Roger Federer
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Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.
E. O. Wilson
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Anytime we're talking about Thurgood Marshall, that's a good thing, I think, because it gives us an opportunity to go back, look at the history, and recognize what his contributions were.
Laurence Fishburne
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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
Stephen Covey
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Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.
Joan Cusack
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I feel like if we're blessed enough to be given talent, to be given an opportunity, then why not take that opportunity and make it for someone's betterment you know?
Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
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Right now we are not on a plane list for the next couple of days so that gives us the opportunity to focus on the people who are here.
Janet Napolitano
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I loved Dungeons & Dragons. Actually, not so much the actual playing as the creation of characters and the opportunity to roll twenty-sided dice. I loved those pouches of dice Dungeon Masters would trundle around, loved choosing what I was going to be: warrior, wizard, dwarf, thief.
Michael Ian Black
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Sometimes things aren't a dream because you don't really think it's a possibility. So my goal on a daily basis is just to go to work and be someone that people like to be around. I just want to work hard and be nice to people, and I feel like when you touch people in that way, on a more personal level, then they go to work the next day pushing for you. And that's when an opportunity comes that you wouldn't have even expected otherwise.
Gigi Hadid