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Quotes About Opportunity

I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
~ Lee Iacocca
There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.
~ Mark Cuban
When they say America is the land of opportunity, it's true. If you work hard, people appreciate you.
~ Vijay Singh
I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
~ Aaron Yoo
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
~ Abigail Breslin
Most directors have little lists in their heads of people they really want to work with.
~ Alan Parker
A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
~ Amber Tamblyn
Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.
~ Amy Acker
We ask our volunteers, "Do you work here?" They say, "Not yet."
~ Andy Stanley
The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.
~ Ann Macbeth
I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
I've been lucky to be able to work with great people and on interesting material.
~ Anton Yelchin
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
~ Arthur Brisbane
Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
~ Barack Obama
We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.
~ Barack Obama
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
My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.
~ Benicio Del Toro
If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment.
~ Betty Williams
Be nice to nerds,,, one day u might have to work for one
~ Bill Gates
I thought I was going to stay at Google, because it was a great place to work.
~ Biz Stone
I want to work with great filmmakers and great actors and get better as an actor.
~ Bradley Cooper
When you knock on the door of opportunity, do not be surprised that it is Work who will answer.
~ Brendon Burchard