Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.[Winston Churchill] Quote:To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities.[Bruce Lee] Quote:There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.[Oscar Wilde] Quote:Ability is nothing without opportunity.[Napoleon Bonaparte] Quote:It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.[Dave Barry] Quote:The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.[Mark Twain] Quote:As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.[George Washington] Quote:Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.[Thomas Edison] Quote:An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.[Martin Luther King Jr.] Quote:A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.[Francis Bacon] Quote:In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by the group hostility. Each group hears not the best, but the worst, that the other group can say.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.[Ayn Rand] Quote:The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.[Samuel Goldwyn] Quote:A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, united in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.[Adam Smith] Quote:To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.[Albert Einstein] Quote:Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.[Henry Ford] Quote:The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workers of all countries...unite![Frederick Engels] Quote:At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. [Peter Ustinov] Quote:But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. [Niccolo Machiavelli] Quote:Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind. [Demosthenes] Quote:Marriage is the union of disparate elements. Male and female. Yin and yang. Proton and electron. What are we talking about here? Nothing less than the very tension that binds the universe. You see, when we look at marriage, people, we're are looking at creation itself. "I am the sky," says the Hindu bridegroom to the bride. "You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you." [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. [Thomas A. Edison] Quote:Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. [John F. Kennedy] Quote:A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. [Sir Francis Bacon] Quote:Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them. [Ann Landers] Quote:Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. [Lord Acton] Quote:Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. [Laurence J. Peter] Quote:You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. [General Douglas MacArthur] Quote:The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. [Aristotle] Quote:While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. [Publilius Syrus] Quote:A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. [Ogden Nash] Quote:The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity. [Richard M. Nixon] Quote:Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. [Henry J. Kaiser] Definitions of: unitDefinition: A single thing or person.Definition: The least whole number; one. Definition: A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Definition: Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind. Definition: A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole. |
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