Barack Obama Quotes, Responsibility Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge "never again," but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity.

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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Inspiring Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Clever Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you. And then that's what you have to be. But what I'm looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.

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It is more important to say "no" to an opportunity, than to say "yes".

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We continue to build temples. We desire that as many members as possible have an opportunity to attend the temple without having to travel inordinate distances.

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Imagination in business is the ability to perceive opportunity.

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Where one is hopelessly undecided as to what to say, there (as Confucius would have said, if they had given him the opportunity) silence is golden.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Silence Quotes

Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

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Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Forever Quotes

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

If we attempt to preserve the consumer economy indefinitely, ecological forces will dismantle it savagely. If we proceed to dismantle it gradually ourselves, we will have the opportunity of replacing it with a low consumption economy that can endure.

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Tags : Alan Thein Durning Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Economy Quotes

It is natural that we face obstacles in pursuit of our goals. But if we remain passive, making no effort to solve the problems we meet, conflicts will arise and hindrances will grow. Transforming these obstacles into opportunities is a challenge to our human ingenuity.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Goal Quotes

I try my best to be honest. A lot of the greats before me did the same and what you come to find out is that, when you have the opportunity to share your words with millions of people, you're not the only one who had that experience. That's the beauty in it.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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Music is a language of emotion. I'm passionate about it because I think it's the most direct way to connect to the things that are ineffable. Words just aren't necessary a good enough opportunity to express. Words are maybe less than accessible at expressing.

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Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

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I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.

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Tags : Alanis Morissette Quotes , Children Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Regret Quotes , Opportunity Quotes

I'm sort of always trying to reinvent and recreate a better way of being, because, you know, democracy has been "the worst of all political systems except for all the rest." So I think we have a lot of room to grow and be a better society, and it's a constant battle. It's an exciting opportunity to be active.

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