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Quotes about Unity


The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

W. E. Channing

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

William Cicero

Happiness is possible only when one is busy. The body must toil, the mind must be occupied, and the heart must be satisfied. Those who do good as opportunity offers are sowing seed all the time, and they need not doubt the harvest.

E. R. Stettinius, Anonymous

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.

John Hersey

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

Francois Mitterrand

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong. [Lat., Maxima illecebra est peccandi impunitatis spes.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.

J. Saunders Redding

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.

Mario Andretti

Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Alva Edison

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Thomas Alva Edison

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

General Douglas Macarthur

The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.

Anthony Robbins

None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.

Henry Fielding

This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw

Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique.

Jigoro Kano

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]

Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

John D. Rockefeller

When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Christopher Ricks

Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

Henry Ward Beecher

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise.

Bible, Ecclesiasticus 38:24

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Josiah Royce

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Josiah Royce

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Lewis Mumford

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw

Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Mahatma Anonymous

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