Opportunity Quotes
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We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.
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Any opportunity I can get to come back to Memphis, I try to get it.
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When you are insulted, you must not only not resent it, but you must make it an opportunity to exhibit the Son of God in your life. And you cannot imitate the nature of Jesus-it is either in you or it is not. A personal insult becomes an opportunity for a saint to reveal the incredible sweetness of the Lord Jesus.
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We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that.
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I think it's a transformation in terms of the U.S. and the industry. It will give us the opportunity to take it globally.
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A woman is more than the sum of her parts. So I had an opportunity to present some work at the White House. I chose not just to talk about the sky, the planet, love or heartache. I wanted to actually be there, to place a mark on that moment.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
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We were looking for the perfect vehicle to re-team. 'Hairspray' presented us with a wonderful opportunity to collaborate once again with our multi-talented friend.
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I was never really interested in an operatic post, but I took on the Bastille because it seemed a unique opportunity to build an opera ensemble from scratch, and to deal with all the disciplines that go into opera - the music, the staging and the singing - in an interrelated way.
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State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world.
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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
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I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.
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The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
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We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.
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Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.
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I came west for opportunity. I made Lincoln my home.
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Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.
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Despite the situation in Cuba, I had a chance to play on the national team; and compared to other baseball players and other people in Cuba, I had the opportunity to live at a level that was not very high class but in the middle.
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No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
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One of my ideas is that we post every vote on Facebook and on social media so that voters have an opportunity to hold their elected official accountable.
