Top 1200 Opportunity Knocks Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there's not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I'm grateful for it.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

No matter how often I was knocked to the ground, I always got up. Nothing knocks me down.

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ]

You've probably had somebody punch you in the stomach and it knocks the wind of you and you can't breathe. That's how I felt.

Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

One of the biggest challenges in investing is that the opportunity set available today is not the complete opportunity set that should be considered. Limiting your opportunity set to the one immediately at hand would be like limiting your spouse to the students you met in high school

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I first started in tech when one of my friends and I decided it was a good opportunity to start a company while we were in school because we had almost no opportunity cost. Our opportunity cost was playing 'World of Warcraft' and drinking beer. We thought it was a good time to try something.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

'Hard Knocks' seems to have done for the self-serious NFL what the witch did for Rapunzel: persuaded it, somehow, to let its hair down.

Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.

Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.

I'm slightly concerned, because as a centre-half who took a lot of knocks to the head I'm not normally synonymous with being a fashion icon.

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

All the kids looked up to my father because he was known to be that dude who knocks people out.

The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky.

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

If there's an opportunity open that leads to an even bigger opportunity, you're going to take it.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

Stay in school because education provides you with an opportunity. Opportunity is all you can ask for.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Rock music seems to be very fragmented these days, I can't say that I ever really hear anything that just knocks me over.

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted [knocks wood] career... I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.

Don't assume that opportunity will come to you. Put yourself forward when there is an opportunity.

The United States has such an opportunity to be a leader in the world, and that opportunity has been frittered away.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That’s what it’s all about.

The first hit in a game is the thing that knocks everything out; whether you're nervous, you're over-thinking stuff, it definitely helps.

But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end.

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin’s Day will shine upon the key-hole.

For me, if somebody tells me to go away, that is an opportunity for me to give them a better life. And that's an opportunity for me to know and realize where not to be. It's an opportunity for me to see what could be better than being with that person I love.

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.

The fear of God does not come naturally to human beings; it must be learned through Scripture, worship, and the hard knocks of experience.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.