The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

To many a man and sometimes to a youth there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

The fact that we're going through a crisis is an opportunity for Europe to be more coordinated and more integrated. We're actually talking about a European Monetary Fund or euro bonds about guarantees for countries about economic governance in the European Union. That shows the strength of Europe.

Remember the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans when other doors were closed.

Winning isn't everything but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy sports can be an incredible opportunity.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I think that when we have a better educated society when there is less violence in our cities when people get back into the workforce and have the opportunity to take care of themselves and their families - that for me really is the kind of success and the kind of America that I think most of us still want we aspire to.

In the past human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other especially in highly stressful situations.

What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.

The right combination is between a free economy and social policy that addresses the needs of society and creates equal opportunity.

That's what the Romney plan is all about how to get jobs created how to get this debt and deficit under control how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society but upward to the Great Society.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

You can always tell folks from nonfolks. Folks like to feel good like to smile for the camera when there's a big photo opportunity for a really good cause.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's on its best day is a crude art. We make mistakes I make mistakes. With more than 50 years as a journalist I have at least had the opportunity to blow more stories make more mistakes than maybe anybody in television.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Acting gave me the opportunity to do outrageous things. It allowed me to be sad happy angry and lustful even if it was just vicariously.