Opportunity Quotes - Page 29

• For me, moving is always a big opportunity. Its just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

  John Darnielle

  Moving, Enough, Bigs

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• Some opportunities are a calling. Others are a distraction. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

  Rick Warren

  Mean, Calling, Distraction

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 15, 2013

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• Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Way, Helping, Lord

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jul 23, 2015

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• Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  May, Happy Endings

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• Farmers and people who make a living from the land are finding it impossible to survive. So the first step is to get out of that place. Come to the city where there are opportunities.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Land, Cities, People

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• I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important thing in my life. So any time I get an opportunity to tell Him that I love Him or given opportunity to shout Him out on national TV, I'm gonna take that opportunity. And so I look at it as a relationship that I have with Him that I want to give Him the honor and glory anytime I have the opportunity.

  Tim Tebow

  Jesus, I Love Him, Giving

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• We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Essence, Practice, People

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• We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about.

  Barack Obama

  Life, Thinking, People

  "The War on Drugs is a War on Minorities: Former El Reno Prison Inmate Freed by Obama Speaks Out". "Democracy Now!" with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. July 17, 2015.

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The importance of making sure that the sense of accountability when, in fact, law enforcement is involved in a deadly shooting is something that I think communities across the board are going to need to consider, we have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations so that everybody feels safer and our law enforcement officers feel, rather than being embattled, feel fully supported.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Law, Community

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• We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Community, Nuclear

  Statement by the President on the Framework to Prevent Iran from Obtaining a Nuclear Weapon, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 2, 2015.

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• My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Writing, Past

  "Lawmakers clear path for Obama's historic trade deal" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. April 30, 2015.

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• One in a while, you discover a presidential candidate who has the potential to change the political conversation, to elevate key issues in voters' minds, and disrupt and transform a tired Republican brand. Once in a lifetime, maybe, you will have an opportunity to support a transformative candidate who can do all of these things, and win.

  Matt Kibbe

  Change, Tired, Winning

  "FreedomWorks’ Matt Kibbe to help run super PAC for Rand Paul", www.foxnews.com. June 18, 2015.

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• I think Pixar has the opportunity to be the next Disney - not replace Disney - but be the next Disney.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Next, Pixar

  BusinessWeek, November 23, 1998.

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• America guarantees equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Outcomes, Guarantees

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• The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wise, People, Giving

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one,
  if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.

  Florence Nightingale

  Girl, Pride, Thinking

  Ray Strachey, Florence Nightingale (1930). “Struggle: the stirring story of woman's advance in England”

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• One thing I have learned in institutions is not to press hard on the fact that their inmates are, like the rest of mankind, sinners; for they, like many others, are liable to confuse the generic term "sinner" with the specific term "criminal." Most of us are so accustomed to admit that we have fallen short of grace and are "miserable offenders," in view of our possibilities and opportunities, that we do not resent being called "sinners"; but not so with our congregation.

  Mary B. Harris

  Views, Grace, Inmates

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• What's important is that children have an opportunity to bond with the natural world, to learn to love it and feel comfortable in it, before being asked to heal its wounds.

  David Sobel

  Children, Important, World

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• Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.

  Billy Graham

  Journey, Giving, Joy

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The core principle is that we want an economy that works for everyone, not just for a small elite. We want equal opportunity, not equality of outcome. We want to make sure that there's upward mobility again, in our society and in our economy.

  Robert Reich

  Upward Mobility, Principles, Want

  "Inequality for All". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. September 20, 2013.

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• The big opportunity - and where the most disruption is - is in local media.

  Vivian Schiller

  Media, Bigs, Disruption

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• Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Virtue

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• The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

  Ed Murray

  Change, Believe, Opportunities To Learn

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