Opportunity Quotes

What was scaring me was if we lost, I didn’t know how I’d play cricket again. This was such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a World Cup final at Lord‘s.

Football was a dream, an opportunity once taken from me – something I thought I’d never be able to do again.

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.

It is important for people to be able to read all sides of every question; for a feeling of national unity does not come from one-sided or inadequate information, but from a sense of freedom impartially secured and of opportunity equalized by a just government.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

I think the older that I’m getting, the more I’m understand what a privileged job I have, and what an opportunity I have. Now I’m directing films and I’m getting my first movie in America off the ground, and you start to understand how the system really works.

Whether I’m playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It’s like sharpening my blade.

I’m delighted when Scotland qualify either for the World Cup or the European Championship. I always take a vested interest in Scotland’s result, and it creates the opportunity for a drink in our house when they do well.

I always mention stacking the dishwasher – any opportunity. But it’s the consequences – it’s the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.

Wherever there’s opportunity, the mafia will be there.

In economics, one of the most important concepts is ‘opportunity cost’ – the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can’t spend it again on something else.

It’s been a lot of responsibility to be an ambassador for U.S. wrestling and the sport. It’s a tough journey. There’s a lot of obligations but also a lot of opportunity.

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn’t want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

This is a crisis, but there is an opportunity to help revitalize and renew the Catholic community.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize – yours, not anybody else’s.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

I’m not going to fearmonger to win an election. I’m going to focus on the positive opportunities we have for a bright future for all of our families, where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to thrive.

Often people become our friend or follower with an undercurrent of resentment in our having more success than they have. They secretly desire the opportunity to take us down a notch; they have a nose for any misstep on our part they can exploit.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

I’m really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven‘t had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

All over the world, independent and strong civil society – NGOs, faith leaders, and other community advocates – help governments solve problems and better serve their people better by shining a light on the issues that matter most – like education standards, access to healthcare, the rule of law, and economic opportunity.

Music is my one opportunity to let out how I’m feeling when I’m not talking to a chick or my mom, you know what I mean? It’s just venting.

‘Gaana Bajana’ gave me an opportunity to experiment with my looks. I played a tomboy in that film, a role that I hadn’t essayed before. I have no regrets for having done the film.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

COVID is apparently the political tool to stop all of America, but yet if you’re an illegal alien coming into America, you’re welcome in with open arms and given every opportunity.

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.

Some people might look at Baltimore, from afar, and see nothing but hopelessness. I see, in Baltimore, tremendously good and compassionate people, and a tremendous opportunity to save a lot a lives.

Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

With fame comes opportunity, but in my opinion, it also includes responsibility – to advocate and share, to focus less on glass slippers and more on pushing through glass ceilings and, if I’m lucky enough, then to inspire.

There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

I do like to work on a Marvel method, so if I’ve got the opportunity, and the writer is happy to do it, I like to have a writer detail what happens on a page, but not saying what happens in every scene.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there’s so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

I’m grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.