Opportunity Quotes

• This year let's all come together, Congress, the White House, businesses from Wall Street to Main Street, to give every woman the opportunity she deserves, because I believe when women succeed, America succeeds.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Women
  • She

• My role in 'Hero' is not a lengthy one but a powerful one. It was a nice opportunity, and I grabbed it.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Nice
  • Powerful
  • Hero

• In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

  

  William Shenstone
  • House
  • Design
  • Garden

• I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

  

  Luis Guzman
  • People
  • Life
  • Culture

• We saw Hulu as an opportunity to broaden our audience for ABC content.

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • Opportunity

• Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.

  

  Gene Tunney
  • Up
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• Once every 12 years there is a unique opportunity to reinforce the bonds between Mexico and the United States, when our presidential election cycles coincide.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Opportunity
  • Unique
  • Presidential

• There are two things that create opportunities. One is being involved with something that makes money, and the other is winning awards. And the reason that winning the awards creates the opportunities is because it gives the people who are selling the picture the opportunity to make more money.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • People
  • Money
  • Winning

• We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way.

  

  Freeman Thomas
  • Done
  • American
  • Opportunity

• The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

  

  James W. Black
  • Real
  • Small
  • College

• Segregations, by which I mean people living in a certain area, was a planned system. It was made that way. And what you have is a system in which people are there to be exploited. They're right there waiting for it. A community of people who've been denied wealth, denied wealth-building opportunities, are right there. And the banks went right after them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Community
  • Mean

• To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Good
  • Believe

• People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

  

  Israel ben Eliezer
  • People
  • God
  • Mean

• It's a great opportunity to be together apart from celebrating Indian cinema.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Great
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• If I couldn't get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy.

  

  Christen Press
  • Happy
  • Game
  • Freedom

• Every little opportunity and chance that I get to be on a set, to be a director, to utilize the skill sets that I already have and to learn what I don't know, and to see how I can improve upon that is just a really great opportunity for me.

  

  Eric Balfour
  • Great
  • Opportunity

• Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • People
  • Long
  • Today

• I understand a lot of celebrities lose weight because they have the opportunity to get in shape and become healthier, but when you get so polished, you can't tell the story of a blue-collar family anymore.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Blue

• Our job is to make manifest the story, to be it. In a sense, the theatre is such a big star itself, bigger than any Shakespearean actor I could hire, that we should take the opportunity to fill it with voice and verse and movement, not interpretation.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Job
  • Star
  • Theatre

• So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

  

  Brandi Chastain
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • World
  • American
  • Rest

• I actually turned down an opportunity for a private interview with Adolph Hitler.

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen
  • Opportunity

• People seldom recognize opportunity for it comes disguised as hard work.

  

  K. Balachander
  • People
  • Work
  • Hard Work

• The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Culture

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