Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Hoppus

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

Mark Batterson

As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.

Mark Batterson

You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

Mark Batterson

If you wait for perfect conditions to seize an opportunity, you'll be waiting till the day you die.

Nicholas D. Kristof

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

Neil Armstrong

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

Neil Armstrong

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Naomi Klein

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

Mo Ibrahim

United States has always been very close to Africa and it's very sad now to see that Africa has a lot more friends - a lot more engagements with the Chinese, with the Indians, with the Brazilians as the United States retreats. Actually, Africa is a wonderful place to do business and American business is missing a big opportunity by really overlooking Africa.

Mitt Romney

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

Mitt Romney

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Mitt Romney

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education...

Mitt Romney

I see an America where poverty is defeated by opportunity, not enabled by a government check.

Mitt Romney

I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here illegally should not be given a special pathway, a favored pathway to become permanent residents merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That they should be in line with everybody - they should be given the opportunity to get in line with everybody else but they go to the back of the line.

Mitt Romney

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

Mitt Romney

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

Mitt Romney

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Priyanka Chopra

I love what I do, and for me, acting can be anything. It could be in America. It could be in India. It could be in England. It could be anything. As long as it's an interesting part and an interesting opportunity, I would love to do it.

Publilius Syrus

Through indecision opportunity is often lost.

Publilius Syrus

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Publilius Syrus

You should hammer your iron when it is glowing hot.

Leon Spinks

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

Lea Michele

I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.

Kenneth Lay

I always took my role as a leader, and certainly chairman and CEO of a major company very seriously as to our employees and trying to create opportunities for them and create opportunities where they could even, as I said many times, could realize their God-given potential and maybe realize more potential than even they realize they had.

Oprah Winfrey

Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Ashley Greene

Acting is a smaller piece in a big puzzle. There are charity things I want to immerse myself in and want to have the time to go and give back to people who don't have the opportunities I have. It's a very important thing to me.

Paul Wesley

Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.

Pete du Pont

I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown, I'm underrated, and there's nowhere to go but up.

Peter Lynch

A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself 'When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer' and banish forever the fatal thought 'When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller,' then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

Peter Hain

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

Peter Guber

Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work.

Selma Blair

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.