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Opportunity Quotes



"I don't know if I would've had the opportunity to be on 'Wizards of Waverly Place' if it weren't for my heritage. I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!"


"We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it's gone forever."


"Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door."


"I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world."


"Your authenticity is the gateway to all good things."


"I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right."


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


"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."


"I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress."


"Ability is nothing without opportunity."


"There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object."


"We think there's a huge opportunity in smaller vehicles. Smaller vehicles done in an American way."


"In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level."


"Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world."



"I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene."


"When you pray and hope for a change. Don't expect a change to come. Expect the opportunity for a change to come."


"This Budget reflects a choice - not an easy choice, but the right choice. And when you think about it, the only choice. The choice to take the responsible, prudent path to fiscal stability, economic growth and opportunity."


"Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently."


"America is another name for opportunity."


"All things are possible; if something seems like it's not, it's only because enough people aren't being deceived into the possibilities yet."



"My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome."


"By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes."


"Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances."


"We have a rare and perhaps small window of opportunity to set partisan differences aside, and attempt to achieve what many in recent years have felt was unreachable - greater retirement security for ourselves and our children."



"You're just so excited that you have this record deal or this movie opportunity that you don't stand up for yourself and say, This is what I want to do."



"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"



"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"


"Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me."


"It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try."


"I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely."



"Let's take a timeout. Let's allow investors the opportunity in a period of market calm to re-examine what's happened and to deploy new strategies into the marketplace."



"We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity."


"Know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it."



"If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it."


"To those who will see, the world waits."


"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."


"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."


"He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue."


"Ability is of little account without opportunity."


"Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days."


"On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things."


"The heart sometimes doesn't care about limits."


"There are endless opportunities in life."


"The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way."


"You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you."



"Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others."


"Sometimes you can miss the boat and find a new life."
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