Quotes
Quotes about Unity
The mandate for equal opportunity doesn't dictate disregard for the differences in candidates' qualities and skills. There is no constitutional right to play ball. All there is a right to compete for it on equal terms.
Equal opportunity is good, but special privilege is better.
There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. - My Summer in a Garden.
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Observe the opportunity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
Let us seize, friends, our opportunity from the day as it passes. [Lat., Rapiamus, amici, Occasionem de die.]
The actual fact is that in this day Opportunity not only knocks at your door but is playing an anvil chorus on every man's door, and then lays for the owner around the corner with a club. The world is in sore need of men who can do things. Indeed, cases can easily be recalled by every one where Opportunity actually smashed in the door and collared her candidate and dragged him forth to success. These cases are exceptional, usually you have to meet Opportunity half-way. But the only place where you can get away from Opportunity is to lie down and die. Opportunity does not trouble dead men, or dead ones who flatter themselves that they are alive.
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
There is far more opportunity than there is ability.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwritingâ a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line. Will it be everything you dreamed of. We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.
Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it
