Quotes about Opportunity

America is too great for small dreams.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

How can we love our country and not love our countrymen; and loving them, reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they're sick, and provide opportunity to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory?

aren't lazy or unwilling to work: they just don't know how to free themselves from the welfare security blanket.

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.

Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility

Remember, one lives only once; if it is neglected, if you do not come to suffer, if you avoid it—it is eternally irreparable

In a race, sooner or later there's a moment that separates the winner from those who don't win. That instant is your chance, the moment you've been waiting for.

When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.