Explore Quotes on Opportunity

The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.

These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.

I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

We've got something special going here. We want to keep it going. You don't have many opportunities like this, and the window of opportunity for us is now.

At the moment of death, there are two things that count: whatever we have done in our lives, and what state of mind we are in at that very moment. Even if we have accumulated a lot of negative karma, if we are able to make a real change of heart at the moment of death, it can decisively influence our future, and transform our karma, for the moment of death is an exceptionally powerful opportunity to purify karma.

My reality was that if there was a defenseless player, if that person didn't touch the ball, I would not hit them. I was not going to strike you if you didn't have an opportunity to get the ball.

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

Your prayers are your light; _x000D__x000D_Your devotion is your strength;_x000D__x000D_Sleep is the enemy of both. _x000D__x000D_Your life is the only opportunity that life can give you._x000D__x000D_If you ignore it, if you waste it,_x000D__x000D_You will only turn to dust.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

I say I'm the only serious comedian in the presidential race. And I'd like to take this opportunity to ask both Romney and Obama to debate me. Because I think that both of those guys - I think that the American people are being given a false choice, because the choice between the lesser of two evils is a false choice.

I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King.

I believe in professionalism, but playing is not like a job. You have to be grateful to have the opportunity to play.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Security isn't what the wise person looks for - it's opportunity.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.