Opportunity may refer to:
- Opportunity International - An International microfinance network that lends to the working poor
- Opportunity NYC is the experimental Conditional Cash Transfer program being launched in New York City
- Opportunity, Washington, a city in the U.S.
- Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, an important literary periodical of the Harlem Renaissance
- Opportunity cost
- Market opportunity
- Equal opportunity
- Business opportunity
- Political opportunity
- Means, motive, and opportunity
- The Opportunity, a 17th-century play
- "Opportunity", a song by Pete Murray
In space exploration:
- Opportunity rover (MER-B), one of the two rovers of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission, the other being the Spirit rover.
- 39382 Opportunity, an asteroid named after the Mars rover
- Launch window, a window of opportunity
Famous quotes containing the word opportunity:
“Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)