Quotes about Opportunity

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

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.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

What one does in one's club is what determines whether one gets called up for the national team.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Equality, citizens, is not the whole of society on a level, a society of tall blades of grass and small oaks, or a number of entangled jealousies. It is, legally speaking, every aptitude having the same opportunity for a career; politically all consciences having the same right. Equality has an organ, gratuitous and compulsory education. We must begin with the right to the alphabet.

A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good?