Opportunity Quotes

• At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

  

  Alexa Chung
  • Writing
  • School
  • Dream

• The meaning of geography is as much a sealed book to the person of ordinary intelligence and education as the meaning of a great cathedral would be to a backwoodsman, and yet no cathedral can be more suggestive of past history in its many architectural forms than is the land about us, with its innumerable and marvellously significant geographic forms. It makes one grieve to think of opportunity for mental enjoyment that is last because of the failure of education in this respect.

  

  William Morris Davis
  • Enjoyment
  • Significant
  • Grieving

• ...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Earth
  • Opportunity
  • Second

• If you've got the platform and the ability to make a difference, then this goes beyond 'should' and reaches the level of 'must.' You must make a difference or you squander the opportunity. Wasting the opportunity both degrades your own ability to contribute and, more urgently, takes something away from the rest of us.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Ability
  • Differences
  • Levels

• When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more. “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.

  

  Dany Heatley
  • Past
  • Team
  • Player

• I think we think alike. We drive similar setups, I think. It feel like it's the coolest opportunity.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Opportunity
  • I Think
  • Setups

• You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Opportunity
  • Forgive

• I learned that people everywhere are basically the same and have similar goals that we do. They want health and happiness and the opportunity to provide for their families.

  

  Steve Kerr
  • People
  • Health
  • Happiness

• That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Future
  • Giving
  • Energy

• The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

  

  John Boehner
  • Great
  • Power
  • Value

• Our home tells a story about us, so we may as well take the opportunity to make it a stylish one.

  

  Deborah Needleman
  • May
  • Home
  • Stylish

• We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

  

  Marc Veasey
  • Opportunity
  • Education

• As a former stand-up comic from my University of Michigan days, the opportunity to participate in a Friars Club roast was bucket-list stuff.

  

  Rich Eisen
  • Former
  • Participate
  • Roast

• A lot of people do get stuck on the idea that they can't pour energy into something unless they own it. Given the current situation, property ownership is getting more and more unlikely. And it is not the essential part. If you're able to roll with adaption, and build the skill base of being a really useful person, there are so many more opportunities. And that's a skill for the future, because that's what the world is going to be like.

  

  David Holmgren
  • People
  • World
  • Energy

• When they call you and say, 'So you want to play 'Black Panther?'' if you know what 'Black Panther' is, there's no way in the world you're going to say no because there's a lot of opportunity for magic to happen.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • World
  • Black
  • Magic

• From the takeover of Detroit and the failed stimulus packages to the enactment of Obamacare, the president and congressional Democrats chose to use Americas economic crisis as an excuse to expand government rather than as an opportunity to responsibly shrink it.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Opportunity

• Most extraordinary success includes first having to overcome extraordinary adversity. See your challenges as opportunities to become better.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Success
  • Gratitude
  • Adversity

• One of the advantages of living in a constitutional federal republic is that we have the ability, if not the duty, as citizens to repair or replace those acts of legislation under which we have agreed to live. We must act when it has become evident that said legislation no longer serves us as a people or advances the principles upon which this nation was founded, one of these being “the pursuit of happiness,” which may only be secured through wealth creation. If it burdens the debt obligation of the government, it cannot be creating wealth. If it does not advance the cause of regaining American competitive dominance in the global marketplace, it is not creating wealth. If legislation and regulation were proposed that taught people how to fish instead of providing fish, then the unemployed would find a way to create jobs for each other. Wealth creation is mankind’s natural objective when given the opportunity. and the tools.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Happiness
  • Legislation
  • Advantages

• I like driving; I don't drive since I live in New York. I don't have an opportunity to drive, like, ever.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Live
  • Opportunity
  • Driving

• Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

  

  Sophocles
  • Life
  • Father
  • Opportunity

• We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Sometimes

• Communications are making this one world. Back in the day, 400-500 years ago, nobody knew what anyone else was doing. It's on the 6 O'Clock news now. Now we can say, Oh, that's the way they live. Oh, they do that!! Opportunities, the chance to bring about change, it's all based on communication. Communication and jet planes.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Live
  • Communication

• The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Speak

• Kids are so busy with different things and are occupied with other things, so when they do find themselves to be creative, it's often that they can be creative in the kitchen and they get the opportunity to bond with family, friends and talk. It just opens up their lines of communication. We need that now for these young people.

  

  Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child
  • People
  • Kids
  • Creative

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