Opportunity Quotes

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
Joe Biden

Home, Long, Give

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.
Spike Lee

Power, Blessed, Black

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford

Art, Denial, Machine

Never surrender opportunity for security.
Branch Rickey

Security, Surrender

Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins

Waiting, Book, Career

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
Harry Connick, Jr.

Music, Today, Listen

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
David Suzuki

Lost, Put, Energy

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
Jeanne Moreau

Change, Age, Amazing

I think any opportunity you have to be green, whether it's in business or in everyday life, you should take it.
Lauren Conrad

Life, Business, Everyday

I love going on book tours because it's an opportunity to connect with the people that matter most to my brand.
Lauren Conrad

Love, Book, Matter

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.
Javier Bardem

Giving, Loved, Truly

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
Margaret Cho

Love, Idea, Ourselves

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.
Margaret Cho

Best, Body, Issues

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.
Buffalo Bill

Live, Fire, Through

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.
Mel Gibson

Successful, Daily, Learn

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.
Vera Wang

Business, Wedding, Find

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner

Great, Power, Chance

For me, Barack Obama's election was a milestone of the most extraordinary kind. On the day he was elected I felt such hope in my heart. I thought we were seeing the beginning of a new era of equal opportunity across race and gender such as America had never known before.
Jesse Jackson

Hope, Heart, Thought

The Internet has become an integral part of everyday life precisely because it has been an open-to-all land of opportunity where entrepreneurs, thinkers and innovators are free to try, fail and then try again.
Ron Wyden

Life, Try, Free

The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
Daisaku Ikeda

Problems, Personal, Social

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida

Success, Leadership, Alone

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Change, Society, Give

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner

Selfish, Majority, Motives

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can't tell you how frustrating it was that they didn't get that. No joke - I'd leave meetings crying all the time.
Kanye West

Time, Tell, Joke

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye West

Music, Art, Hurt

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity.
Dorothy Height

Life, Give, Often

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.
Benazir Bhutto

Peace, Government, Progress

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost.
Quintilian

Lost, Making, Minds

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad, happy, angry and lustful, even if it was just vicariously.
Joan Allen

Sad, Happy, Angry

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Opportunity Definition

Victor Hugo

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us