Opportunity Quotes

From the days of our Founding Fathers, through Democratic and Republican Administrations, among conservatives and liberals alike, the concept of equality of opportunity and dispersion of wealth and economic power has been a part of the American psyche.

Age is opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

God’s best gift to us is not things, but opportunities.

He knocked at each one of the doorways of life, and abode in none.

The follies a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

The man who waits for things to turn up has his eyes fixed on his toes.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune: Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures. (Julius […]

Equality of opportunity means equal opportunity to be unequal.