Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voting is the only opportunity we have to contribute, to select the people that we want that feel the same way we feel about things.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We should learn to be patient with ourselves. Recognizing our strengths and our weaknesses, we should strive to use good judgment in all of our choices and decisions, make good use of every opportunity, and do our best in every task we undertake. We should not be unduly discouraged nor in despair at any time when we are doing the best we can. Rather, we should be satisfied with our progress even though it may come slowly at times.

Yesterday took away the opportunity to pretend there was no problem.

We don't want to let this opportunity slip by.

Larry Coker

We have some strong commitments. They know the opportunity of what they have to do here.

David Lord

We have an opportunity as a region to put ourselves on the map.

We had every opportunity to win that game.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Temptation cannot exist without the concurrence of inclination and opportunity.

Bobby Jones

We have an opportunity to sow a seed.

We have an opportunity to make things better for all of Southwest Georgia.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

People when they migrate rarely do it in a vacuum. There is some connective tissue ... here there were the familial roots, plus the opportunity for fishing.

Pierre Omidyar

If you give people the opportunity to do the right thing, you'll rarely be disappointed.

Today we have before us an opportunity to re-launch the peace process.

William Shakespeare

Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered, shall never find it more.

Janet Murguia

We are reaching out to this administration. We think it is a unique opportunity . . . to get things done.

We are patient, and we are not opportunity constrained.

Shimon Peres

I see an opportunity that we must not miss.

I see little upside opportunity in this stock.

I said to myself if the opportunity came, I would go down there. If the opportunity comes up again, I'm ready to go.

Anne Lamott

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

Andy Pettitte

When you build relationships, you get to share your beliefs. It gives you the opportunity to share your faith with other people.

Albert Bushnell Hart

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

Albert Camus

Life is the sum of your choices.

Annie Besant

The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

Annie Lennox

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

Clay Aiken

Faith is not about a building or a lifestyle. You can minister in many ways besides attending services or being a preacher. And I think that that's what I feel most thankful for--that I have the opportunity to minister now, in my own way.

Clay Aiken

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.

Clayton Christensen

The transformation at the corporate level was achieved by selling off business units in old markets and by creating new business units to pursue the new opportunities. But the individual business units themselves within those transformed corporations were almost inert to change.

Claire Danes

Find as many opportunities as you can and clock as many hours as you can.

Daniel Kahneman

There's a very good reason for why economics developed the way it did, and that is that in many situations, the assumption that people will exploit the opportunities available to them is very plausible, and it simplifies the analysis of how markets will behave.

Daniel Kahneman

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

Danny Elfman

It's hard to get a film, you know, you need a very special film to be able to get that experimental. But, I would love to see that happen. I would love the opportunity to be more experimental than I am.