Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a wonderful opportunity to come up with a proactive approach.

This is a wonderful opportunity that we have here.

This is a wonderful opportunity for the team.

Pete Carroll

This is a rare opportunity with the right elements, the right ingredients ... and I'm not going to give it up.

This is a prime pick-up opportunity for Republicans.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Daniel Doctoroff

This is an opportunity we will never have again.

This is an opportunity to make up for that trip.

This is an opportunity to make something happen.

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Karen Hughes

This is an opportunity for the president to publicly thank the partners from around the world who are working with us on the war on terror,

Sallie Krawcheck

I'm really putting my life towards helping women to invest, and there's a circular reference here because if women can invest and give themselves the opportunity to earn higher returns, they can start those businesses. They can go to work with a little more confidence to ask for that promotion, to ask for the new assignment, etc.

Sallie Krawcheck

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

Ryne Sandberg

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

S. I. Hayakawa

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Russell Peters

We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.

Russell Simmons

The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.

Russell Simmons

America, you know, they always separate people because of race. They've been able to convince, 'The niggers are coming.' You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people. Not only because there are more mixes of people, but because people are more open-minded about each other. So I think in the future, America has a great, great opportunity, and mostly because of hip-hop.

Russell Simmons

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Russell Simmons

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

Ron Paul

Unskilled and inexperienced workers are the ones most often deprived of employment opportunities by increases in the minimum wage.

Ron Paul

I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.

Sam Rayburn

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Sam Raimi

Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

Sam Mendes

You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all.

S. Truett Cathy

Opportunity presents itself sometimes in unusual situations. What you think is the worst thing turns out to be a good thing. Different circumstances challenge people to do things they didn't know they could do, and in those times when the outlook appears the worst, we find new reasons for optimism.

S. Truett Cathy

Many of the unexpected opportunities we encounter are small but significant.

S. Truett Cathy

To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

S. Truett Cathy

Nearly every moment of every day we have the opportunity to give something to someone else—our time, our love, our resources. I have always found more joy in giving when I did not expect anything in return.

Saadi

Court the society of a superior, and make much of the opportunity; for in the company of an equal thy good fortune must decline.

Roy H. Williams

Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs.

Rosa Parks

I did not want to be mistreated, I did not want to be deprived of a seat that I had paid for. It was just time… there was opportunity for me to take a stand to express the way I felt about being treated in that manner. I had not planned to get arrested. I had plenty to do without having to end up in jail. But when I had to face that decision, I didn't hesitate to do so because I felt that we had endured that too long. The more we gave in, the more we complied with that kind of treatment, the more oppressive it became.