Quotes
Quotes about Unity
Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. â¢Anonymous Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
Opportunity comes in a once while, you got to see it, just like a shooting star.
The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -Thomas Edison.
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. -Unknown.
As adults, we must ask more of our children than they know how to ask of themselves. What can we do to foster their open-hearted hopefulness, engage their need to collaborate, be an incentive to utilize their natural competency and compassion...show them ways they can connect, reach out, weave themselves into the web of relationships that is called community. . -Dawna Markova.
The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditionsâit only guarantees equality of opportunity.
...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and the freedom that makes progress possible, lies in unification. For where unification has been able to establish unity of ideas it has usually ended in uniformity, paralysing the growth of new ideas. And where the unification has merely brought about an artificial or imposed unity, its irksomeness has led through discord to disruption.Vitality springs from diversity- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces- alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions--bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities.
Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call "genius" has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.
Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.
The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.
Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
