Opportunity Quotes

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Great Opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

On the fall of an oak, every man gathers wood.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

America, we all know, is the land of opportunity. Your success in life depends on your ability and drive, not on who your father was. Just ask the Bush brothers. Talk to Elizabeth Cheney, who holds a specially created State Department job, or her husband, chief counsel of the Office of Management and Budget. Interview […]

No man’s abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend to recommend them to the notice of the world.