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Quotes About Opportunity

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.
~ Maya Angelou
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his fortunes.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.
~ Scott Wolf
Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
~ Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.
~ George A. Sheehan
Even after nearly 50 years in this business, I still feel like I'm lucky every time I get a decent job, but an opportunity to work with people of that ilk.
~ Sam Elliott
Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
~ Samina Baig
Your best work involves timing. If someone wrote the best hip hop song of all time in the Middle Ages, he had bad timing.
~ Scott Adams
Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.
~ Shelley Berman
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
~ Sophocles
I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.
~ Taylor Swift
Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
~ Tom Cochrane
I'm not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you've got something to say and the work is good, it doesn't matter where you come from
~ Tom Hiddleston
I've always felt real blessed, especially to live in this country. If you dream hard and work hard, anything can happen here-I'm perfect proof.
~ Yogi Berra
You achieve because you're lucky to work with people who are very talented.
~ Ben Gazzara
Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
~ Boris Johnson
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
~ Boyd Holbrook
The final solution for unemployment is work.
~ Calvin Coolidge
If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
~ Carlos Alazraqui
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
~ Cathy Guisewite
I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.
~ Chris Evert
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!
~ Earl Nightingale
Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
IN MY NERVOUSNESS FOR THIS SPEECH AND MY MOMENTS OF DOUBT, I'VE TOLD MYSELF FIRMLY, 'IF NOT ME, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?'
~ Emma Watson