"I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity."

"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

"Ability is nothing without opportunity."

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness." 

When you make a mistake, you are presented with an opportunity to gain wisdom. And the only way to experience true wisdom is through your mistakes. 

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door, but only as long as it's not visible from the street.” 

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions.

I'm not a Tony Blair impersonator.

Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

“I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.”

“You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that’s part of it: knowing that you’re not shut out forever, and that there’s a goal you still can reach.”

“Creating opportunities means looking where others are not.”

“In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.”

I want to do good work. I want the opportunity to work with good people, and the only way I'm gonna do that is to commit 110% - you get out what you put in.

“We have no ability to be equal to all have opportunities equal to their ability lane.”

“Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.”

I continued my efforts to educate myself. This was no easy task under the Russian government of Warsaw; yet I found more opportunities than in the country.

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

“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”