Opportunity Quotes - page 11

I belong to the generation of workers who, born in the villages and hamlets of rural Poland, had the opportunity to acquire education and find employment in industry, becoming in the course conscious of their rights and importance in society. (Lech Wałęsa)
I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check. View quote
Mitt Romney
My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying. View quote
Margaret Chase Smith
We must see that regional imbalances in the growth of various parties of the country are removed and all the states progress evenly. We shall ensure that all citizens of the country get full opportunity to contribute their might towards India's progress. View quote
Rajiv Gandhi
People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitely wicked. View quote
Terry Pratchett
My grandfather always says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity. View quote
Yoshijirō Umezu
But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when every thing is taken away from you and you have nothing. View quote
Ellen DeGeneres
By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment. View quote
Gillian Anderson
If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have. (Gillian Anderson)
Whether game theory leads to clear-cut solutions, to vague solutions, or to impasses, it does achieve one thing. In bringing techniques of logical and mathematical analysis gives men an opportunity to bring conflicts up from the level of fights, where the intellect is beclouded by passions, to the level of games, where the intellect has a chance to operate. View quote
Anatol Rapoport
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The transformation of part of the northern part of this continent into "America" inaugurated a nearly boundless epoch of opportunity and innovation, and thus deserves to be celebrated with great vim and gusto, with or without the participation of those who wish they had never been born. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity. View quote
Ted Chiang
Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one. View quote
Louise L. Hay
Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and "Down with Authority" her war-cry. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him. View quote
Neil Strauss
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. View quote
Hippocrates
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo. (Eminem)
While Hitler ... had an eye for any tactical opportunity [that] was offered him, he still lacked the ability to assess [the] practicality of a plan. View quote
Erich von Manstein
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet. View quote
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
Conservatives - or better, pro-corporate apologists - hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right ... This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove - the reputed brain of George W. Bush - as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today. View quote
Bill Moyers