Top 1200 Given Opportunity Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

I've been blessed with the opportunity to play the game I love for a living and it has given me a huge platform to help others.

I have pursued my dream and I believe it is important to give back because I have been given the opportunity to be what I am now.

In my opinion, whenever I've been given the opportunity to play, I've done well and scored goals, and that will continue to be the case.

You have to temper the iron. Every hardship is an opportunity that you are given, an opportunity to grow. To grow is the sole purpose of existence on this planet Earth. You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

Not everyone is granted the opportunity that each of us deserves: to fulfill our God-given potential.

I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.

There are a lot more female writers wanting to direct their own material and hopefully will be given the opportunity.

Torrid has given me an amazing opportunity. I can reach out to different girls and help them realize that they are beautiful, too.

I'm not going to pretend to be 50. I just want to be happy and enjoy the experiences I have and take advantage of every opportunity I've been given.

The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives that this is where you belong and this is where you are.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I have been given a fantastic opportunity to captain the Test side and will continue to work very hard at doing my best at that.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.

And I think 'Offspring' has given me that opportunity to really appreciate the audience and want to entertain them and make it the best drama I can.

Being asked to serve as UN Women’s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women’s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can’t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role.

There are a lot of guys in those SmackDown and Raw locker rooms that, given the opportunity, I'd love to have matches with, tell stories with, and do stuff with.

"...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

In L.A. or New York, we don't fit. I think middle America could relate to us a lot, but we've never been given the opportunity to get out there.

It's like, you're being given a great opportunity, so take the bull by the horns, do your work and come in here and perform.

Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.

There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

I was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang and what I sang and what I wore. I wanted to write a book about an American family, the family that has produced me. The longer I live, the more I realise the incredible support and love we were given as children.

Given the opportunity, I might change a choice I made, but you can't regret making what you thought was the best decision at the time.

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

Having all this success in Australia is life-changing and incredible and has given me the opportunity to come to the U.S. and get started over here.

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

When you are given an opportunity to make a film like 'Body of Lies' - and I would put 'Blood Diamond' in the same category - of course you jump at these opportunities.

Awareness is observation without choice, condemnation, or justification. Awareness is silent observation from which there arises understanding without the experiencer and the experienced. In this awareness, which is passive, the problem or the cause is given an opportunity to unfold itself and so give its full significance. In awareness there is no end in view to be gained, and there is no becoming, the 'me' and the 'mine' not being given the continuity.

Serving the people of Arkansas' 2nd District is the honor of a lifetime, and I'm grateful for the opportunity I have been given by my fellow Arkansans.

The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can.

I have the opportunity to do that right now, to try to work as hard as I can to really leave my footprint in this game that has given me so much.

Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it.

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.

David Dhawan is the scientist of entertainment and has given me the opportunity over the last 20 years to work in several films.

You see opportunity... Opportunity is like a window: every once in a while, it opens, if you're ready for that opportunity. So be prepared, work hard, and follow your dreams.

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.

I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old - and I know that we are ready.

How can I ever repay you for what you've given me? A daily opportunity to change the world for the better simply by spending time with the person I love the most.

I do believe God has given me an incredible opportunity and a platform in a secular environment but still to take a stand for Christ and being a blessing to believers.

I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to others in due course, I'll be given-or not given-the opportunity of benefiting from what I've learned. In any case, I'll have enjoyed the inestimable advantage of doing things I like doing and following my own inclinations.

The best way to deal in a transparent world is just be transparent. Let your life be authentic and let people look in. Because if they want to find out, they're gonna find out. And so to me it's given me a greater sense of accountability as a CEO. It's given me a greater opportunity to lead.

Being a fan of the game, you always look up to those types of guys that really have given you an opportunity.

The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.

Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'

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

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Just to be able to release an album back in the day when I came out was very gratifying. Most people were not given the opportunity.

I really believe in the goodness of Canadians. The idea that everyone should be given an equal opportunity to succeed in this country and particularly for children.

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

Obviously my strength is going up and down the wing - that's what has given me the opportunity to play for the national team and at Barcelona.

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.

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

I'd like to thank everyone who has given me the opportunity to play with the best beach volleyball players in the world.

I've been on 'Hollyoaks' since I was 15, and I've grown up on the show. I'm so very fortunate to be given the opportunity to learn my craft in such a fantastic environment.

I know our country can remain forward-thinking by ensuring young women and minorities are given equal opportunity.

I think the opportunity to bring together the people in the world of politics, business and entertainment and have an opportunity to listen to their best learning and thinking is a great opportunity.