"We had an opportunity to clinch a playoff berth and I think if that's not enough motivation I don't think you should be playing this game"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

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

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it"

"What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery"

"Opportunity makes a thief"

"Believe you can and you're halfway there"

"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength"

"Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity"

"From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance"