One Opportunity Quotes

#1. Your image is your brand and you have only one opportunity to make that first impression. Choose to make a positive first impression.

Cindy Ann Peterson

#2. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.

Barbara Elsborg

#3. If you are given only one opportunity to speak, be certain your voice is heard.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

Natalie Massenet

#5. If you are weak ... . It is ok. Because you can get variety of opportunities to strengthen yourself ... ... you can have several chances to become a stronger individual. But if you are a hater you only have one opportunity to keep being weaker day after day.

Sameh Elsayed

#6. Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

Eminem

#7. One opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.

Markus Zusak

#8. Knowing that salvation is God's work alone should also free us from fear. We no longer have to fear that everything is riding on what we say - that we might miss that "one" opportunity to speak into our children's lives and have their eternal salvation forfeited.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#9. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Shan Sa

#10. We should enjoy and make the most of life, not because we are in constant fear of what might happen to us in a mythical afterlife, but because we have only one opportunity to live.

Greg Graffin

#11. You have only one opportunity to live, so remember to be alive.

Debasish Mridha

#12. This notion of universal Windows apps is a very powerful concept because we're now aggregating the 300-plus-million-socket run rate of Windows into one opportunity for our developers.

Satya Nadella

#13. A wise person can do more with one opportunity than a fool with a thousand.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. If you believe that that the one opportunity you missed is the last one you'll ever get, then that is exactly what will happen: no more opportunities ever.

Stephen Richards

#15. Nervousness kill us ... because we think we have only one opportunity that is in the Present and we don't think about the future! We loose our balance.

Vikram Roy

#16. There never is but one opportunity of a kind.

Henry David Thoreau

#17. We get one opportunity in life, one chance at life to do whatever you're going to do, and lay your foundation and make whatever mark you're going to make. Whatever legacy you're going to leave; leave your legacy!

Ray Lewis

#18. Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#19. I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

T.I.

#20. The act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.

Alan Keyes

#21. A wise person makes use of one opportunity where as a fool misses a thousand.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#22. I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.

Matthew Rhys

#23. Sometimes we have one chance, to ride that wave, one opportunity to jump on, take a deep breath and feel the rush of adrenaline. . . don't miss your chance.

Heidi Reagan

#24. I just follow God's lead. One step, one day and one opportunity at a time. The hardest part is not becoming distracted.

Carlos Wallace

#25. Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

Lilian Katz

#26. The worst thing one can do for a hyperactive child is to put him or her in front of a television set. Television activates the child at the same time that it cuts the child (or adult) off from real sensory stimulation and the opportunity for resolution.

Jerry Mander

#27. Never sit back and wait for a opportunity to find you, get up and search for one, it exists find it!

Victoria Addino

#28. Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.

Chris Murray

#29. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.

Jim Rohn

#30. If opportunity doesn't knock your door,then build a new one.

Glenda Radores

#31. One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

Baltasar Gracian

#32. As far as One Direction goes, and Mindless Behavior and all the other bands, I'm all for it, and if there's ever an opportunity to work with them, that'd be great.

Nick Jonas

#33. With all her heart, Mom believed in opportunity for everyone and privilege for no one. She put her children first, and her faith and trust in the American dream.

Ralph Webster

#34. I'm very grateful for work especially in film industry. It's highly competitive and there are a lot of people standing behind me jumping at the opportunity to only do one thing, like one movie or one TV show or one episode.

Famke Janssen

#35. Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.

Naveen Jain

#36. " ... One can learn to focus on 'opportunity' as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively."

David Steindl-Rast

#37. No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found. What's most important is to hold fast to Hope, to face the future with courage.

Daisaku Ikeda

#38. I think if you've won one, quit while you're ahead. I loved doing it, though. If you get an opportunity that great, grab it, as it won't come along again. Until I read in the papers I did it to 'rescue my career'.

Tony Blackburn

#39. Harry was on a God-given mission - a trial mission that was the opportunity of an eternity and one he hoped would become a permanent job if he performed well.

Debbie Macomber

#40. Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.

Matt Emmons

#41. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

Bruce Campbell

#42. It's very true that an artist who networks well will have better opportunities than one who doesn't network well. But great networking skills without great art won't change art history.

Mark Kostabi

#43. The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#45. In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.

Malcolm Turnbull

#46. 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

#47. There was no reason to get upset over one missed opportunity when so many more lay ahead.

Andrew Beyer

#48. Creativity thrives on a consistent diet of challenges and opportunities, which are often one and the same.

Lee Clow

#49. We should be proud that so many want to come to America, that it is still seen as the land of opportunity. Let's make it a land of legal work, not black-market jobs. Let's make it a land of work, not welfare. Our land should be one of assimilation, not hiding in the shadows.

Rand Paul

#50. A missed opportunity repentance only leaves behind

Eve Berlin

#51. No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

Harvey MacKay

#52. Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#53. I remember one director in Argentina said to me, 'You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.' And I didn't care. I don't have a complex.

Elena Roger

#54. One way to kill an opportunity is to avoid taking it.

Jack Canfield

#55. I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

Walton Goggins

#56. In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.

Jim Rohn

#57. Anyone who has a garden, park or orchard tree has an opportunity to ensure that it offers protection, brings beauty and bears fruit for future generations. In short, every one of us should aspire to be a forester.

Gabriel Hemery

#58. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. I'll share the formula I learned while forging my way forward as a full-time painter for forty-four years. The steps all break down to one simple sentence: Make art that connects with enough folks for you to earn a splendid living.

Jack White

#59. No one can predict at the outset where the life stream will lead, but those moments of fissure, rupture, diversion, and frustration require choice and can become springboards to opportunity.

Virginia Scharff

#60. 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

#61. One of the glories of education is the opportunity to hear the truth come out of a human being with blood in the veins and air in the lungs, and not just off a printed page.

Douglas Wilson

#62. One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

Steven Brust

#63. It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Brandi Carlile

#64. At its core, a fair and just society is one where opportunity is open to all - not just those at the top.

Rupert Murdoch

#65. The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

Stefon Harris

#66. When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.

David Sedaris

#67. 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

#68. We are monumentally distracted by a pervasive technological culture that appears to have a life of its own, one that insists on our full attention, continually seducing us and pulling us away from the opportunity to experience directly the true meaning of our own lives.

Al Gore

#69. 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

#70. You're always trying to seize any opportunity or hold on to one if you already have it. It was just a matter of going out there and producing for the team.

Jose Bautista

#71. In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery

John J. Bonk

#72. Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.

Aleister Crowley

#73. One way to know if you are working in your strengths is to ask yourself, "Do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day?" That's what you want for your role: You want to be doing what you do best every day.

Matt Perman

#74. One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.

Calvin Coolidge

#75. When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.

Yuvraj Singh

#76. Al is, and always has been, the person who has been the candidate - the elected official. And he is the one who makes policy. As his wife, I have the wonderful opportunity to advocate for causes that I am passionate about, and I'm thankful for that.

Tipper Gore

#77. I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'

Lea Salonga

#78. Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

Madchen Amick

#79. One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity ...

Honeya

#80. AOL, I think, represented an opportunity for a few things. One is I'm a big believer in the AOL brand, and I think AOL as a brand has touched hundreds of millions of people around the world. Reigniting that brand is a very exciting challenge and a big opportunity.

Tim Armstrong

#81. What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.

Sun Tzu

#82. I'm thankful for all of my opportunities. But I'm not trying to have a career where I am hanging on one of Dr. Drew's rehab shows. I can go home.

Tone Bell

#83. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Arthur Brisbane

#84. So here I stand, one girl among many. I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

Malala Yousafzai

#85. #1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#86. I would hope with all my heart, that Jay Z not take personally what was said ... I would like to take this opportunity to say to Jay Z and Beyonce: I'm wide open, my heart is filled with nothing but hope and the promise that we can sit and have a one-on-one to understand each other.

Harry Belafonte

#87. A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.

Ryan Phillippe

#88. Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.

Andre Dubus III

#89. Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks ... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.

Edgar Cayce

#90. All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

William Gibson

#91. most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge. One

Viktor E. Frankl

#92. New media technologies can open up new opportunities for self-expression. But yoking one's identity too closely to certain characteristics of these technologies - and lacking the time, opportunity, or inclination to explore life and lives offline - may result in an impoverished sense of self.

Gardner Howard

#93. 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

#94. I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

Alanis Morissette

#95. I'm an ambitious self-publicist out of necessity. I've never been one to miss an opportunity because I've never had any illusions about how hard it is to survive as a painter ... It's been an extra driving force to be able to prove the sceptics wrong.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#96. 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

#97. I believe strongly that the opportunity is here for us in America to finally have a healthcare system that we can really be proud of. But it's got to be one where everybody is involved. Everybody: consumers, employers, providers, health-insurance companies, everybody.

Max Baucus

#98. What this is about is hopefully an opportunity for me to help pave the way for my future in terms of getting financially choosier. You have to plan the windfall as if it'll be your only one.

Jim Parsons

#99. I think some people just use pregnancy as an excuse to really pig out. To be really disgusting. I am just going to eat this is my opportunity. I waited for this my whole life. I was not one of these people.

Jennifer Lopez

#100. I've always loved the Bond pictures. I have watched every single one. Movies don't get bigger or better than Bond, so I knew this was my opportunity to do a massive action picture with outrageous stunts.

Lee Tamahori