150 Given Opportunity Quotes

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Famous Given Opportunity Quotes

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you. — Clive Davis

This opportunity comes once in a lifetime. — Eminem

The successful are those who have been given opportunities. — Malcolm Gladwell

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

Ability is of little account without opportunity. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. — Rick Warren

Opportunities multiply when you seize them. - Sun Tzu

Opportunities multiply when you seize them. — Sun Tzu

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. — Audrey Hepburn

Opportunity only knocks once: Grab it or you’ll lose it. — Filipino Proverbs

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off. — Marco Pierre White

Freedom bestows on us the priceless gift of opportunity - if we neglect our opportunities we shall certainly lose our freedom. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way, because it could lead to something amazing. — Joe Rogan

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. — Sun Tzu

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation — Zig Ziglar

Short Given Opportunity Quotes

  • Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it. — Al Capone
  • The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom so labeled. — American Proverbs
  • Exceptional performers are masterful opportunists, keenly alert to opportunity! — Brian Tracy
  • There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity. — Leigh Anne Tuohy
  • The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. — Ayn Rand
  • One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles. — Erwin Rommel
  • This chance will stand before you only once. — Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Every chance taken is another chance to win. — Unknown
  • Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. — Kyle Chandler
  • Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. — Roy D. Chapin, Jr.

Top 10 Given Opportunity Quotes

We spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity for self-government, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny, is rampant. — Julius Nyerere

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves. — Urie Bronfenbrenner

I am incredibly grateful for the opportunities Vine has given me. — Logan Paul

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. — Hillary Clinton

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most. — Jonah Lomu

I know what sport has given to me in my life, what opportunities I’ve had and the lessons I’ve learned about myself and about life. — Ellyse Perry

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them. — Malcolm Gladwell

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace. — Rick Santorum

I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career. — Verne Troyer

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. — David Millar

Given Opportunity Image Quotes

Given opportunity quote Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.
Believe in your dreams. They were given to you for a reason.

God Given Opportunity Quotes

The true Christian reaction to suffering and sorrow is not the attitude of self-pity, fatalism or resentment; it is the spirit which takes life's difficulties as a God given opportunity, and regards its troubles as a sacred trust, and wears the thorns as a crown. — James Stewart

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do. — Martin Lawrence

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today -- not tomorrow. — Laura Story

Given opportunity quote Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma. — Brad Henry

God has given us these opportunities for tranquility. — Sir William Temple

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him. — Anne Graham Lotz

Given opportunity quote A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.
A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

I came to the United States in the early '80s and was welcomed with open arms and given the opportunity to pursue my dreams. God has been very kind to us. My family and I are fortunate enough to be successful and we feel a tremendous responsibility and obligation to give back to our great country. — Naveen Jain

Because of our situation, God has given us an opportunity to almost transcend our gender, which gives us a vision and sensitivity that other people don't have. They think that being white and male is going to save the world; but life is not The Lion King. — Jason Reeves

I've got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don't know what it does to you, I don't really know. — Eric Clapton

We believe in some basic human principles - everyone should have the opportunities not just to survive, but to excel with their God-given talents and abilities. Those are the values that should be reflected in our budgets. — Patrick J. Kennedy

About Opportunity Quotes

Live by the creed that a strong work ethic, playing by the rules, and doing things the right way will bring about opportunities for success and, ultimately, happiness. — Nick Saban

Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations. — Condoleezza Rice

I've got a Championship game to play and I'm excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. — Les Miles

Given opportunity quote New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis. — Aga Khan IV

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. - Oscar Wilde

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. — Oscar Wilde

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones. — I. M. Pei

Given opportunity quote A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.

I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules. — Amitabh Bachchan

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge. — Michael Bloomberg

If you're passionate about what you do, then go for it wholeheartedly. Be prepared that if anytime, you may be surprised by a phenomenal opportunity that may come your way, and that's when I say, do your homework. Be ready. — Julie Andrews

I was at home with my family and have a house full of puppies, and my cousin mentioned that with all the stories I have about my dogs, it might be a cool opportunity to make a memoir of sorts. — Joe Gatto

Getting Opportunity Quotes

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer

Given opportunity quote Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger. — Kgalema Motlanthe

We have to improve life, not just for those who have the most skills and those who know how to manipulate the system. But also for and with those who often have so much to give but never get the opportunity. — Dorothy Height

When you focus on problems, you get more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you have more opportunities. — Zig Ziglar

We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is. — David Steindl-Rast

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve. — Alexi Giannoulias

Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement. — Norman Vincent Peale

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing. — Hank Aaron

Use The Opportunity Quotes

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce

There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history. — Oliver Burkeman

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. — Bob Ney

Among the social networks, LinkedIn can be one of the most useful when it comes to cultivating critical, lucrative business opportunities, since it has a high concentration of business decision-makers. — Lewis Howes

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. — Tarja Halonen

When you waste a moment, you have killed it in a sense, squandering an irreplaceable opportunity. But when you use the moment properly, filling it with purpose and productivity, it lives on forever. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson

If we want a world in which all 8 billion of us have the opportunity to flourish—to live long, healthy, prosperous, fulfilling lives—we need to use more, not less, fossil fuel going forward. — Alex Epstein

When we use punishment, our children are robbed of the opportunity to develop their own inner discipline-the ability to act with integrity, wisdom, compassion, and mercy when there is no external force holding them accountable for what they do. — Barbara Coloroso

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers. — Nancy Reagan

Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself. — Peter Lindbergh

Taking Opportunity Quotes

Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life. — Dogen

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind. — Robert Kiyosaki

If you really want something, and really work hard, and take advantage of opportunities, and never give up, you will find a way.. Follow your Dreams. — Jane Goodall

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. - Sam Shepard

When you hit a wall – of your own imagined limitations – just kick it in. — Sam Shepard

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. — Jim Carrey

Anyone can see the adversity in a difficult situation, but it takes a stronger person to see the opportunity. — Drew Brees

I'll never take for granted the opportunity to put on a Dodger uniform. — Clayton Kershaw

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security. — Mary Landrieu

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. — Robert D. Hare

I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content. — Ryan Seacrest

Given A Chance Quotes

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. — Robert H. Schuller

Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow. — Dylan Thomas

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails. — Raymond Carver

All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates. — Coretta Scott King

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. - Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. — Desmond Tutu

With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together. — Nile Rodgers

My whole story is just about me having a second chance. — 2 Chainz

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. - Mae West

All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. — Mae West

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. — Aldous Huxley

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength. — Frank Duff

Another Opportunity Quotes

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. — Henry David Thoreau

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong. — Michael Jordan

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. - Richard Branson

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming. — Richard Branson

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it. — Bill Parcells

When we miss it, it really does pass us by. Tomorrow presents another opportunity for awareness, but it’s never an opportunity for the same awareness. — Rick Rubin

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act. — Saint Augustine

Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group. — Patrick Lencioni

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. - Milton Friedman

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. — Milton Friedman

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. — Richard Russo

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. — Bryan Adams

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More Given Opportunity Quotes

A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'. — J. Frank Dobie

Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that. — CM Punk

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best. — Michael Johnson

It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. — James S. Coleman

Stand-up is still my favorite, but the podcast is a close second. It's so fun, and it's given me the opportunity to have three-hour conversations with people I wouldn't have otherwise been able to talk to. — Joe Rogan

I am grateful for who I am and who I am not. I am grateful for the life I have been given and for all that I have and all that I don't. Every breath I take is a blessing and an opportunity to fully experience the sheer joy of being alive. — Miranda Kerr

One way to avoid unspotted prediction errors is for the technology in its current state to have early and frequent contact with reality as it is iteratively developed, tested, deployed, and all the while improved. And there are creative ideas people don’t often discuss which can improve the safety landscape in surprising ways — for example, it’s easy to create a continuum of incrementally-better AIs such as by deploying subsequent checkpoints of a given training run, which presents a safety opportunity very unlike our historical approach of infrequent major model upgrades. — Greg Brockman

If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower-income family, you're effectively given two options. One is to get a four-year college degree; two is to work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options. — James David Vance

Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley. — Lewis H. Lapham

In 2008 I didn't take it all in enough. I was so wrapped up in just the competition that I missed what was going on around me. If I am given that opportunity again to go to the Olympics and be an athlete I want to take it all in because I feel like this is my last shot and I want to feel the team spirit. I want to really live and breathe the USA. — Shawn Johnson

I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that. — Campbell Scott

Personally, I think that children should be left alone, they should be given an opportunity to grow up, to become aware of themselves and decide themselves who they are: men or women, if they want to have a traditional or homosexual marriage. — Vladimir Putin

I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you. — Anne Hathaway

Through adversity, not only are we given opportunity to discover our inner strength, we are also given the gift of foresight so we can shine a light for others who go through the experience after us. — Rachael Bermingham

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. — Doris Lessing

One of the many things I love about Daenerys from Game of Thrones is she's given me an opportunity to fly the flag for young girls and women, to be more than just somebody's wife and somebody's girlfriend. — Emilia Clarke

I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that. — Gucci Mane

How you use the opportunities your given to affect the world around you will determine the legacy you leave behind. — Tony Dungy

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. — Charles M. Schulz

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstances, all these things shall be for our experience, and our good. — Robert D. Hales

Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life. — Buck Brannaman

Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all. — Kristin Hannah

Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions. — Steve Kerr

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Authentic interest is generated when students are given the opportunity to delve deeply into an interesting idea. — Kelly Gallagher

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work. — Gary Johnson

The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity. — Peter Kay

The last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. — Viktor E. Frankl

Do not keep crying when your love has been gone. You only need Smile because he had been given you the opportunity to meet someone who is better. — Kahlil Gibran

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