Opportunity Quotes
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The world needs champions. Too many people still find the path to opportunity closed to them. Too many still find unnecessary obstacles to education, to housing, to the full and free exercise of the right to vote.
Loretta Lynch
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
Namie Amuro
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I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.
Jan Schakowsky
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We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.
Brad Henry
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Unfortunately, I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've ever had an opportunity to play in.
Daryl Hannah
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
Nancy McKeon
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Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. When I talked to Maynard Keenan from Tool, I almost couldn't believe it was happening.
Joe Rogan
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
Kate Burton
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We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.
Dennis Muilenburg
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
Eddie Redmayne
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
Parker Harris
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
Laura Mvula
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Through Gateway to Work, we can provide more of the workers our businesses need to thrive, and we can help give more of our families the opportunity to work their way to self-sufficiency and into the middle class.
Maggie Hassan
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I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.
Anthony Santos Aventura
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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
James E. Faust
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Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber
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I'm a jazz musician, and I really wanted to not miss an opportunity to have the full connection to jazz.
Kurt Elling
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I used to have all these plans and think 'Ah, I have my whole life figured out', but then I realized no matter how much I plan: life happens! So I find myself living day to day trying to do my best, embracing every moment as a learning opportunity and chance to get to know myself a little more.
Q'orianka Kilcher
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We all know that there are different scripted programs out there, and we're all facing the same challenges in terms of ratings and everything else, but I think that there is a lot of opportunity to be had as well, and what I'm excited to do is to get to explore that.
Channing Dungey
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The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I would do it.
Dan Mintz