The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

Our game is to recognize a big idea when it comes along, when one doesn’t come along very often. Opportunity comes to the prepared mind.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

Life is too short to not be pursuing the best opportunity you know of.

Whenever you see an overnight success, your eyes deceive you. What you are witnessing is the hour of opportunity unleashing the potential energy of previous choices. It was not one decision, but the accumulated power...

Everything negative—pressure, challenges—is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Every day, there is a golden opportunity just waiting to be discovered.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Stay open to opportunity — you never know where your next important connection will be made.

Behind every no entry sign there’s a door.

Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a...

They’re down around 15 to 20 percent from their highs. You’ve got an opportunity to buy some of these bank stocks at decent values here.

This is an opportunity for Richard and Kevin to develop themselves still further in slightly different fields.

We’ve got a good opportunity. But we know them; they’re going to be ready to play. But we’ll show up, too.

Usually, the action’s moving so fast, you don’t get the opportunity to see the psychology, really,

One who is hungry for growth, doesn’t requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity…

Cultivate the habit of defining, refining, redefining and redeeming your opportunities. Failure is a temporal event, not a permanent trademark.

Tough times are opportunities to prove to yourself that your mind is tougher than all challenges.

Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

The Dow tested it this morning and didn’t break it. That’s when buyers scrambled to use it as an opportunity to take some stocks that have been beaten down.

Social work is an opportunity for huge hearts they remember to do small things.

We’re looking for good residential development to occur in our city and this is another excellent opportunity for it to happen,

Every difficulty is an opportunity for personal growth.

It’s a great opportunity to get into a competitive tournament situation before jumping into league play. We really want to use these games to hone our systems and skills.

The court now has the opportunity to do the right thing and really enforce what their criminal penalties are for violating a restraining order.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

This is a great opportunity for Bravo to pay tribute to this world sporting event the way Bravo knows best — through characters who share their point of view about Olympic culture, cuisine and fashion....

We always like to give our seniors an opportunity to start during the season. I’m very pleased with the way they came out and played.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

I think this is a decent bill and gives the opportunity for a youngster to progress a little bit faster and not be burdened down.

America’s education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

We played with five bowlers because we thought it was our weak area. But we lost the opportunity after restricting them to 216-4 at one stage.

She was real solid. She gave us an opportunity to win. She made some pitches at times.

When you live life connected to purpose, you don’t have to chase opportunities, they come to you.

We have an opportunity to make things better for all of Southwest Georgia.

A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of hisneeds. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential.

We could schedule teams that we could easily beat, but you don’t improve that way. Basically, we relish the opportunity to go up against some of the top Class AA and Class A programs because...

We’re very excited about this opportunity to have our faculty and students engaged with their counterparts in China. We continue to have a growing number of our students who are interested in the international exchange.

We think Opportunity is now parked on what was once the shoreline of a salty sea on Mars.

Bush has the opportunity with the national championship game to have an unrivaled platform. If he does use that as his starting point into the professional ranks, he’s got a stage. And to have somebody...

I think he’s got a great opportunity. I know that the pro scouts that have been through here have been very complimentary and have rated him very high.

It has been a great opportunity for us to come out here and learn about what these guys do. Sometimes we forget how hard [Sailors] work to protect our freedom. To be able to take...

This is an opportunity for some fresh faces, and we’re going to see what they are about at the international level. This game is important because it can eliminate some players from consideration, and it...

Adrian has an opportunity, and he’s taking full advantage of it. We’re excited to have him, and he’s excited to have that opportunity. He looks like a man on a mission.

There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.

For me to have that opportunity to coach a young lady that talented, that doesn’t happen very often. When you have a kid that’s going to play in the Big Ten next year, with that...

Just because I murdered a man—my boss—doesn’t mean I deserve to be fired. In fact, as I see it and saw it, I should be promoted for showing initiative and seeing an opportunity and opening...

When ‘Dre went down, it created an opportunity for everybody. I think ‘Dre was starting to get a lot of pressure on third downs to always be the guy who made the play. With him...

Grab life by the tail, and then pet it.

I want to use this opportunity to remind us all that though the war in Bosnia was over some 13 years ago, war criminals still live in Europe freely. They’ve not been captured for organizing...