#opportunity

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#even #lose #more #never #occasion

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me in, but I'm always looking if the opportunity is there. ↗

— Steve Finley

#bunt #down #five #get #hits

All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#better #children #country #give #growth

I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin. ↗

— Bess Truman

#against #any #artistic #because #denies

Take a stand against intolerance and for our American values. Say it with pride: I support democracy in America. I support working people in America. I support opportunity in America. And I support Barack Obama for another four years as president of the United States of America! ↗

— Richard Trumka

#america #american #american values #another #barack

You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you. ↗

— Jon Voight

#everything #find #gain #get #little

You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something. ↗

— Jon Voight

#answer #digital #every #everything #film

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year. ↗

— Voltaire

#doing #doing good #found #good #hundred

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#cause #change #changes #communities #england

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally reliant on her family and Social Security for her retirement years. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#family #her #invest #lifetime #often