Opportunity Quotes - page 13

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. (Peter Drucker)
To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything. View quote
Walt Disney
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail. View quote
Henry Ford
I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever they provide us with the necessary facilities from which to defend their own continent. View quote
Chester Bowles
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. View quote
Voltaire
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men. View quote
George Rogers Clark
Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history. View quote
Matt Mullenweg
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. View quote
John Burroughs
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. View quote
Jane Wyman
This is my belief: that through difficulties and problems God gives us the opportunity to grow. So when your hopes and dreams and goals are dashed, search among the wreckage, you may find a golden opportunity hidden in the ruins. (Abdul Kalam)
The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth, and opportunity are in the hands of the many, not the few. View quote
Tony Blair
I have always felt that the real purpose of government is to enhance the lives of people and that a leader can best do that by restraining government in most cases instead of enlarging it at every opportunity. View quote
Gerald Ford
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I gave someone a perverse argument not so long ago about why advertising is better than movies. You want to hear it? Movies operate from a really disingenuous premise, that people are heroes. I know a lot of people and have had an opportunity over the years to observe them. Are they heroes...? Let's put it this way. Advertising tries something simpler and more believable: Products as heroes. I guess the idea is: When all else fails, put your faith in conditioner. View quote
Errol Morris
As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout to exercise their tiny portion of that opportunity. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream. [...] Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America-those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D. C. View quote
Ronald Reagan
People are dying who haven't had that opportunity to say yes to the Lord. View quote
Michael Scott
... one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. (Markus Zusak)
Crowds of questions stream through me like lines of people exiting a soccer ground or a concert. They push and shove and trip. Some make their way around. Some remain in their seats, waiting for their opportunity. View quote
Markus Zusak
I'm really happy that I got to work with such fresh talent. In a day when record companies are not particularly good at encouraging young, talented songwriters to come forward and get exposure, I think it's important to give tomorrow's songwriters the opportunity. View quote
Maurice Gibb
FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano. View quote
Maurice Gibb
Everything in life serves as a challenge and test to elevate us. Therefore it is right to be grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow through tackling this real life experience. View quote
Moshe Chaim Luzzatto