Opportunity Quotes

I will learn, the opportunity will come.

Peace is not just the absence of war. True peace depends upon creating the opportunity that makes life worth living. And to do that, we must confront the common enemies of human beings: nuclear weapons and poverty; ignorance and disease.

Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

We are not going to keep the window open forever.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.

We live in a moment when the dream of equal opportunity is within reach.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.

All things come to him who waits

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Today, we are closer to fulfilling America's promise of economic and social justice because we stand on the shoulders of giants like Dr. King, yet our future progress will depend on how we prepare our next generation of leaders. We must fortify their ladders of opportunity by correcting social injustice, breaking the cycle of poverty in struggling communities, and reinvesting in our schools. Education can unlock a child's potential and remains our strongest weapon against injustice and inequality.

Good service leads to multiple sales. If you take good care of your customers, they will open doors you could never open by yourself.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.

This is not to say that the government should confiscate from the "haves" and bestow upon the "have-nots", beyond the requirements of a compassionate welfare program to provide for those who cannot provide for themselves. Far from it. But it is to say that our duty is to foster a strong, vibrant wealth-producing economy which operates in such a way that new additions to wealth accrue to those who presently have little or no ownership stake in their country.

When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

You cannot separate the onset of a disturbing moment in life from the appearance of some simultaneous new possibility to know a deeper and more unshakable sense of peace.

Failure is just another opportunity to start over.

Everything comes too late for those who only wait.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing but a Good Thing.

Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.

Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.

Successful people are decisive people. When opportunities come their way, they evaluate them carefully, make a decision, and take appropriate action. They know that indecision wastes time that could be spent on more productive tasks.

Never live beneath your privileges.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

Conflict exists strictly as an opportunity to raise our consciousness.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

I was lucky enough to be born in a time and place where society values my talent, and gave me a good education to develop that talent, and set up the laws and the finanical system to let me do what I love doing-and make a lot of money doing it. The least I can do is help pay for all that.

To know in war how to recognize an opportunity and seize it is better than anything else.

He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

Every man gets an opportunity once in a lifetime.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

Focus on opportunities, not problems.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

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

Don't ever admit that the world has not given you an opportunity

When you are full of problems, there is no room for anything new to enter, no room for a solution. So whenever you can, make some room, create some space, so that you find the life underneath your life situation.