Opportunity Quotes

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions […]

You will never “find” time for anything. If you want time you must make it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different – to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must equip people to walk through those doors.

The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are.