Opportunity Quotes

• India has very motivated and talented people, and given the right opportunity, we always rise to the top.

  

  Jinder Mahal
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Motivated

• The people who are good in the long run fail a lot, especially at the beginning. So, when you fail early, it might be worth realizing that this is part of the deal, the price you pay for being good in the long run. Every rejection is a gift. A chance to learn and to do it better next time. An opportunity to figure out how to bounce, not break. Don't waste them.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Long
  • Chance

• The secret to wealth is simple: Find a way to do more for others than anyone else does. Become more valuable. Do more. Give more. Be more. Serve more. And you will have the opportunity to earn more

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Giving
  • Simple
  • inspirational

• I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Opportunity
  • Winning

• We all know that the NFL is the best of the best, and there's great competition across the board, so any time you're hurt or something like that, and another guy gets his opportunity, he's going to try to make the most of it.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Time
  • Great
  • Guy

• How can I ever repay you for what you've given me? A daily opportunity to change the world for the better simply by spending time with the person I love the most.

  

  Dallas Clayton
  • World
  • Spending
  • Repay

• When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • People
  • Single
  • Hobby

• I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Comedy

• I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.

  

  Paul Schneider
  • Opportunity
  • Conscientious
  • Coworkers

• Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Opportunity

• Luck is not what gets you the acting gigs, your talent does, but luck gets you the opportunity to audition for the acting gig. Once you get in that casting room your luck has run out and all that you're left with is your talent to rely on.

  

  Christian Keiber
  • Talent
  • Luck
  • Audition

• 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

• I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

  

  George Stoneman
  • Opportunity
  • Firsts
  • Embrace

• Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to consider the unexpected. Never be so faithful to your plan that you are unwilling to entertain the improbable opportunity that comes looking for you.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • Opportunity

• An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Enjoy
  • Adults
  • Decades

• Broad access to opportunity is the key to a truly equitable America. No matter who you are or where you grew up, Black Faces in White Places provides a blueprint to seizing opportunities at hand - and expanding opportunity for your entire community.

  

  Angela Glover Blackwell
  • Opportunity
  • Grew Up
  • Access

• 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
  • Mistake
  • Missing
  • Lessons

• ...These healers...my intellect has been unable to assimilate their theories....But their facts are patent and startling; and anything that interferes with the multiplication of such facts, and with our freest opportunity of observing and studying them, will, I believe, be a public calamity.

  

  William James
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Dark

• In a changing world, some jobs disappear and new ones are created. That's how it has been for hundreds of years. When jobs disappear, the vast majority is not because of global trade, but because of technical advances, robotization and so on. So, we - and in particular, EU member states - have to invest more in training and education so that people will have new opportunities if their jobs are cut. The EU can also better utilize its investment and social funds to protect its citizens from swift changes.

  

  Cecilia Malmstrom
  • People
  • World
  • Training

• My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

  

  Willie Lanier
  • Reality
  • Football
  • Player

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

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Earth
  • Opportunity
  • Second

• Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

  

  Richard Meier
  • Opportunity
  • Changed
  • Fortunate

• Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

  

  William Gilmore Simms
  • Sleep
  • Solitude
  • Recovery

1

...

144

145

146

147

148

...

182

previous

next