Opportunity Quotes

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.

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

When one door is shut, another opens.

One man’s opportunism is another man’s statesmanship.

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.