Top 100 Good Opportunity Quotes
#1. Learning, like traveling and all other methods of improvement, as it finishes good sense, so it makes a silly man ten thousand times more insufferable by supplying variety of matter to his impertinence, and giving him an opportunity of abounding in absurdities.
Joseph Addison
#2. The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season's greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.
Charles Dickens
#3. In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.
Henry Sy
#4. A part of me still says, 'Maybe, Denzel, you're supposed to preach. Maybe you're still compromising.' I've had an opportunity to play great men and, through their words, to preach. I take what talent I've been given seriously, and I want to use it for good.
Denzel Washington
#5. I think I've had the opportunity to work for people because I wanted to and because I thought they were good people, and therefore everything I do, I can do with sincerity.
Pat Meehan
#6. Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.
Dan Miller
#7. Acting is always something I thought I could do, and I thought I would be pretty good at it, but I thought that I missed the opportunity, that it was too late.
Greg Poehler
#8. I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."
Tony Robbins
#9. In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.
Mike Markkula
#10. Give every opportunity five minutes. If that's all it's good for, so be it. But I'm not going to miss out on something amazing because I was too scared to take a chance.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#11. Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.
Daya Kudari
#12. If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.
Tim Wise
#13. There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!
Chris Chibnall
#14. Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
Joan Didion
#15. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.
Jaroslav Hasek
#16. You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies.
Louis Oosthuizen
#17. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
Amy Sedaris
#18. Particularly if you're a good engineer, there's a lot of ways you can make money, but to actually have an impact on the world is rare, and when you find an opportunity for that, it's very special.
Matt Mullenweg
#19. We [Vietnam] happen to offer good investment opportunities for foreigners, although this is not a one-way street. Both we and the foreign investors benefit greatly as a result.
Nguyen Minh Triet
#20. Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!
Jean Van Hamme
#21. Just because you're good in something doesn't mean you'll necessarily be good in something else. You just try and chase opportunities that you fall in love with or that inspire you and keep doing the work.
Tom Hiddleston
#22. I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross,
Stephen Curry
#23. 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
#24. Innovation is driven by people who have both good theories and the opportunity to be part of a group that can implement them. The
Walter Isaacson
#25. It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back.
Andrew Cherng
#26. Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#27. By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun.
P. J. Plauger
#28. The (Complete) Formula for Getting Lucky: Preparation (personal growth) + Attitude (belief/mindset) + Opportunity (a good thing coming your way) + Action (doing something about it) = Luck
Darren Hardy
#29. But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.
Sean Connery
#30. Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities
the good ones
are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.
Susan Wojcicki
#31. We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents.
Ginny Brown-Waite
#32. Movies are certainly a director's medium, so getting the opportunity to work with really good directors is everything to me.
Clive Owen
#33. I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done.
Lily Cole
#34. I really believe there's no such thing as accidents, only opportunities. God gives everyone the ingredients to a good, happy life. It's up to us to make the most of them.
Rachael Ray
#35. I wasn't good at this dating business. If that's what we were doing. I wasn't very good at predating either. I'd say I wasn't good at postdating, but I hadn't yet had an opportunity to prove it.
Cassandra Page
#36. Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity.
Katy Perry
#37. Opportunity: it's not really scarce. It's everywhere.
If you really were any good, you'd be overwhelmed by it.
Werner Erhard
#38. Singing is good for the spirits. You should never miss an opportunity to sing.
Rick Riordan
#39. It's so good to have the opportunity to help others who have helped you.
It's not about "tit for tat," it's about "I love you, too.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#40. How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#41. There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#42. One problem with gratitude is that it competes with the sense of pride, self-reliance and accomplishment we have. We want to think what we have is the result of our efforts rather than the gifts, good turns and opportunities provided us by others.
Michael Josephson
#43. I believe that it is my job to fight for the rights of others to have the same rights that I take for granted. As a white, American male, I have had it quite good. I recognize that and fight every day for everyone to have the same opportunities that I have had.
Michael Skolnik
#44. If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.
John Wesley
#45. I'm one of the few people up here who actually believes that we need a level playing field when it comes to manufacturing. That means a good tax code, a good regulatory environment, low energy prices, better opportunities for workers to get training.
Rick Santorum
#46. I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.
Angela Bassett
#47. As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the brief window of opportunity we have to teach them simple lessons that can lead to a lifetime of good health.
Richard Carmona
#48. People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.
Terry Pratchett
#49. We only get together when there's a good reason. Like, last summer, we didn't really intend to go out, but we thought the B-52's tour was a good opportunity.
Kathy Valentine
#50. A lot of people said I could be a good player. I just wanted the opportunity to show it. I just let it happen.
Albert Pujols
#51. I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.
Stephen Lang
#52. I just meant that dreams are sort of an opportunity. You can confront danger without actually being in jeopardy."
"Oh," I said. Opportunity was a good thing, a chance, a promise--the gift of drowning every night and never being dead.
Aryn Kyle
#53. No!" Shawn whispered harshly. "If you want to break and run then that's your affair. But I've never known you to cower in the corner when there was a perfectly good opportunity to get yourself killed lurking around the next turn.
Abigail Roux
#54. Great opportunity is only as good as your preparation to take advantage of it.
Tom Black
#55. Bullets don't differentiate between good or bad. They are equal opportunity killers.
Caridad Pineiro
#56. The need to assure that every child has the opportunity afforded by good teachers is urgent. As urgent as the need to be well nourished and for exactly the same reason. A child's growth depends on it.
Lowell Milken
#57. A good Policeman/woman looks for crimes. A bad policeman/woman looks for opportunity.
Richard Diaz
#58. No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.
Sal Mineo
#59. Fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government; that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies; and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
Louis D. Brandeis
#60. Every new season of you life will be an opportunity for you to learn and grow. Don't celebrate the good without celebrating the bad because they both work together to prepare you for the next season of your life.
Theresa Lewis
#61. In early 2008, it was confirmed that there would be an opportunity to build applications for the iPhone. We were fortunate enough to make the right call on that: to bet early, to put resources into it and have a pretty good application in the store at the moment when it opened.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#62. I like to audition for good projects because if it's a good project, it's an opportunity to get in front of a casting director.
Krysten Ritter
#63. We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#64. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.
Og Mandino
#65. A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.
Warren Buffett
#66. Wealth and riches, that is, an estate above what sufficeth our real occasions and necessities, is in no other sense a 'blessing' than as it is an opportunity put into our hands, by the providence of God, of doing more good.
John Tillotson
#67. Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday.
Og Mandino
#68. I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.
Tristram Stuart
#69. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man.
Abraham Lincoln
#70. The perfect party for me is having six to 12 people for dinner Friday or Saturday - good, fun friends, a lot of artists. I have a beautiful deck that looks over the canyon and Los Angeles on one side, so it's very pretty at night. It's a great opportunity to catch up with friends.
Sofia Milos
#71. Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.
James C. Collins
#72. Molly. I have an opportunity for you."
"An opportunity?" I repeated, without enthusiasm. Oh, good. Next comes the part where he tells me to be a "team player" and then dumps some tedious task on me.
"It's a chance for you to show that you can be a team player," Bill Vogel said.
Frankie Bow
#73. I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
Oscar Niemeyer
#74. To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.
Walter Lord
#75. In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite.
Barack Obama
#76. I don't get many good offers. I like to follow the same kind of path I follow in France. If I don't feel the movie is very original or has a good amount of potential, I don't do it. In the films I've done I can feel I'm part of a specific universe, but those sorts of opportunities are quite rare.
Isabelle Huppert
#77. Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#78. We have neither the strength nor the opportunity to accomplish all the good and all the evil which we design.
Luc De Clapiers
#80. It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.
Kathryn Alesandrini
#81. Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.
Jeffrey Deitch
#82. Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.
John C. Maxwell
#83. Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.
Steve Maraboli
#84. When I look back over my career, having an opportunity to compete against really good players like Lester Hayes are some of the highlights.
Steve Largent
#85. Rather than insist that a situation must prove itself flawless before we commit ourselves, we should assume that a good opportunity is very possibly one we should choose.
M. Blaine Smith
#86. Don't get me wrong, I love watching episodes of my favorite shows on Hulu and reading the daily trash on PageSix, but I also embrace the opportunity to settle down with a good book and let my mind travel to another place and time.
Rachel Nichols
#87. I was down in Tampa and it just wasn't a good setup for me, all things considered. But it also gave me the opportunity to get out of there and kind of start over. The Giants, fortunately for me, gave me the opportunity, another shot. I'm just trying to make the most of it.
Pat Burrell
#88. Together, we'll build a far better future for America
a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good.
Ronald Reagan
#89. May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
Charles Spurgeon
#90. When we love somebody, we show it by doing something nice. So learn to serve: find a need and fulfill a need. Surprise people with a good deed they hadn't planned on. We have that opportunity at home, at school, and at church.
Russell M. Nelson
#91. You play because you have a guilty attraction to supernatural beasts and harlequin love stories, but you harbour the secret presumption that you could write them way better yourself. Good. This is your opportunity to prove it.
Avery Alder
#92. If you have a great part, you have the opportunity to give a good performance. The greatest actors get the best parts, and the best parts make the greatest actors. There are plenty of people who are as talented, who just never got the part.
Tom Hollander
#93. Why worry about doing something you love? Figure out what the opportunity is. Find a thing, get good at it, learn to love it later.
Mike Rowe
#94. My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science.
James D. Watson
#95. Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.
Thomas A. Edison
#96. It's been interesting that a diversity of roles have come my way, and that I've had the opportunity to do them. To me, it's about going for a good role that has something to say, and that's a challenge. I've been lucky enough to play everything from a homeless guy to this crazy male nurse.
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
#97. Moving right along
In search of good times
And good news,
With good friends you can't lose.
This could become a habit.
Opportunity just knocked,
Let's reach out and grab it,
Together we'll nab it,
We'll hitch-hike, bus, or yellow cab it.
Jim Henson
#98. The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
Robert Orben
#99. When you're excited, Brooks explained, "it primes an opportunity mindset, so you think of all of the good things that can happen. You're more likely to make decisions and take actions that will make [good results] likely to occur."16
Amy Cuddy
#100. Women and people of color and young people especially are about to have this amazing opportunity to shift the political conversation in this country for the good of all of us, toward more progressive policies, and it's a really amazing and important time to be part of that.
Sandra Fluke
