Opportunity Quotes · Page 249

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

— Mike Huckabee

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

— Rick Derringer

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

— Mitt Romney

I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of…

— Laurie Metcalf

People needed to see and recognize my talent, but I did not get an opportunity for that.

— Shamita Shetty

When you're playing an exhibition, you're kind of letting everyone get an opportunity.

— Wayne Gretzky

Tottenham is the club that first gave me my opportunity to play in one of the strongest leagues in the world.

— Luka Modric

We must provide an improved early education system so that all students have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential.

— Marc Veasey

I cycled on a crew assignment as the backup commander on Apollo 16 and would have flown Apollo 19 on a return…

— Fred Haise

I feel like now I have an amazing wife, a super smart child and the opportunity to create in two major fields.…

— Kanye West

I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at…

— Andrea M. Ghez

Everything that was happening with AEW in the world of professional wrestling and the worldwide attention that it was grabbing, for me,…

— Lance Archer

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end…

— Denver Moore

In December 2005 I had a very good opportunity to test Renault's world championship-winning car at Barcelona, and after 30 laps I…

— Robert Kubica

You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end,…

— Marsha Johnson Evans

To work on the competition wear for the Olympics is kind of insane. As a fashion designer, you don't think to yourself,…

— Stella McCartney

We're all assigned a piece of the garden, a corner of the universe that is ours to transform. Our corner of the…

— Marianne Williamson

But fighting to give women and girls a fighting chance isn’t a nice thing to-do. It isn’t some luxury that we get…

— Hillary Clinton

If the Democrats feel they have lost the public's confidence in their stewardship of national security, then the threat of Iran offers…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now…

— Marcus Aurelius

Singularity will be an opt-in scenario for human beings, especially as we draw closer to it. The more that we have the…

— Ron Currie Jr

We live in a culture where everyone is perfectly willing to do this [to make a lot of money], and they're just…

— Fran Lebowitz

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward…

— Arthur Miller

I look at how we got beat and I thought the hustle points and the energy points were all gauged through offensive…

— Ray Allen

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

— Jean Smart

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are…

— Paul Dano

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

— Earl Nightingale

“When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake. That's”

— Carolyn Brown

I'm always talking about getting playing time. If I don't do anything about it when I do get the opportunity, all that…

— Lorenzen Wright

Every SUNSET gives us one day less to live, but every SUNRISE gives us one day more to hope.

— Ritu Ghatourey

For all my life, America was the place to be. And we somehow continue to be the place where there are real…

— James D. Watson

When someone attacks you, there is always an opportunity, and that's what I look for.

— Imran Tahir

The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little

— Mark Twain

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

— Ross Parsley

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future…

— Ban Ki-moon

Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity

— Michel Sidibe

I'm so excited to be joining Arsenal. It's a fantastic club, and I'm really looking forward to the opportunity of playing football…

— Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain

I do see great opportunity to make reforms to our tax code, making it simpler, fairer and removing corporate loopholes.

— Charlie Baker

It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.

— Dave Barry

Remind yourself that you're bound to get better. Don't get down on yourself. Don't beat yourself up. It's the next opportunity that…

— Jim Rohn