Opportunity Quotes
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What made it so special were the players. They were some of the most outstanding men I have ever been around in my life. The coaches were truly professionals. I wish the 49ers nothing but the best. I am thankful to the York family for having given me the opportunity to be a head coach in the NFL. I am indebted to them for that. I am also thankful for the Faithful fans, I am just sorry I couldn't give them more.
Mike Singletary -
We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.
Marc Veasey
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Bill Smith -
Progressives are overreacting .Underreacting, though, to the - what the real threats are, and the real opportunities.
Van Jones -
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
H. P. Blavatsky -
The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.
Dean Frazer -
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.
Craig Lancaster
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The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
Megan Smith -
I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved.
George Deukmejian -
Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I'd be in the air right now. ... But I'm glad it didn't (come to that). There was significant interest (from other teams), but we had the opportunity to stay here and we took advantage of it. I think both sides are very happy.
Aaron Kampman -
We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion -
Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
Joe Biden
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I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.
Mac Miller -
America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.
Jesse Helms -
When the Kerner Commission told white America what black America has always known, that prejudice and hatred built the nation’s slums, maintains them and profits by them, white America could not believe it. But it is true. Unless we start to fight and defeat the enemies in our own country, poverty and racism, and make our talk of equality and opportunity ring true, we are exposed in the eyes of the world as hypocrites when we talk about making people free - (Chapter 9).
Shirley Chisholm -
For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson -
I think having the opportunity to get inside the skin of people that operate outside the law and normal moral and ethical restraints, and then to go home afterwards leaving them on set, is pretty cathartic. I get to play out all kinds of bad behavior without anyone actually coming to harm.
Adam Croasdell -
Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.
Dalai Lama
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I come from the world of improv; I love any show or any vehicle that gives me an opportunity to be in the moment.
Brad Garrett -
COP 21 provides a unique opportunity for the political leaders of this generation to provide lasting foundations for the preservation and sustainability of generations of the future.
Enda Kenny -
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 -
I can remember when I first started out,I weighted maybe 195 soaking wet. I didn't know a wristlock from a hammerlock, but I thought I knew everything. I was just a dumb kid at the time. Boy, did I learn in a hurry! The independents gave me that opportunity to get better.
Al Snow