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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Compassion Quotes

Quotes About Compassion 

  • A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward. --William John Bennett
  • Christianity demands a level of caring that transcends human inclinations. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. --Pema Chodron
  • Compassion begins with attention. --Daniel Goleman
  • Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. --John Berger, English Artist (1926-  )
  • Compassion is not a popular virtue. --Karen Armstrong, English Writer (1944-  )
  • Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. --Frederick Buechner, American Clergyman (1926-  )
  • Compassion means justice. Meister Eckhart (c. 1260-c. 1327)
  • Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. --Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman (1813-1887)
  • God's care will carry you so you can carry others. Robert Harold Schuller (1926- )
  • Hearin' is one thing and listenin' is another. William Frend Demorgan (1839-1917)
  • I have this theory that if one person shows compassion to another then that person will start a chain reaction of the same. Rachel Joy Scott
  • If I had known what trouble you were bearing; What griefs were in the silence of your face; I would have been more gentle and more caring, And tried to give you gladness for a space. Mary Carolyn Davies
  • Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and will be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. --Abraham Lincoln
  • Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to the place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it. Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Love dissolves hate. Kindness melts cruelty. Compassion calms passion. Cooperation evokes love and when we bow, others bend. This creates harmony. unknown
  • Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God will never. William Cowper (1731-1800)
  • Man's sorrows often will not let me sleep. Henriette Roland Holst (1869-1952)
  • Never interfere with God's providential dealings with other souls. Be true to God yourself and watch. Oswald Chambers (1874-1917)
  • Quaker to a burglar: "Friend, I would do thee no harm for the world, but thou standest where I am about to shoot." 
  • Regardless of how we define Christ's separation from the world, one fact is clear: he did not separate himself from human beings and their needs. Nor did he limit his concern to the spiritual part of man's personality. Erwin W. Lutzer (1941- )
  • Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. Bob Goddard
  • Teach me to feel another's; woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
  • The dew of compassion is; a tear. Lord George Noel Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
  • The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello
  • We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion. Sydney J. Harris
  • Why stand we here trembling around calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells, stretching a hand to save the falling man? William Blake (1757-1827)
  • You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. --Dalai Lama


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Compassion in the Small Things | MWM
Compassion Is The Heart Of Leadership = The heart of leadership is compassion. Compassion is empathy in action. It's not just about feeling for someone's struggle, it's about doing something to support them in it. Compassion is in the small things, in the meaningful actions, where it shows you are paying attention to them. So, what is one practical way you can support someone and have compassion?



Do for Yourself What You Do for Others | MWM
Give Yourself Grace = Compassion is when you are kind and understanding towards yourself and others. When we practice self-compassion, it lowers our stress levels and helps us be more resilient and strong. Where in your life do you need to be more compassionate with yourself?



Help Carry Someone Else’s Load | MWM
Relate With Others = Empathy is figuring out a way to understand what another person is feeling, and it allows you to know what it is like to walk in their shoes. When you have empathy you can see into the soul of another’s struggle and relate with them. Be an empathetic leader, help the people around you carry their load. 



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Care More, Do More! = Compassionate people are quick to help. Their caring translates into actions. When people care, trust increases and communication improves. Make a commitment today to care a little more and do more for others.


How to Relieve Stress and Improve Persistence
Be A Friend To Yourself = Do you beat yourself up? Instead, treat yourself as kindly as you would treat a good friend if they were dealing with the same challenge or mistake. When we are compassionate towards ourselves, it lowers our stress levels, helps us persevere, and just feel better. Where have you been too hard on yourself?






Less of a Feeling = Look beyond yourself, focus on others. Put yourself into someone else's shoes and show them how much you care. Invest, connect, and make a difference in someones life today!





Do you care enough to be intentional about adding values to others? Every single day, find one person or multiple people to add value to. Don't let a day go by where you don't pour into someone else!




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1 John 3:17 If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister in need but shows no compassion - how can God’s love be in that person?
Colossians 3:12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,
Ephesians 4:32 ESV Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Hebrews 10:34 - For you had compassion on those in prison, and you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
Luke 10:33 - But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion.
Luke 15:20 - And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.
Luke 7:13 - And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.”
Mark 6:34 ESV When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.
Matthew 9:36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Micah 6:8 (MSG) But he’s already made it plain how to live, what to do, what God is looking for in men and women. It’s quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor, be compassionate and loyal in your love, And don’t take yourself too seriously— take God seriously.
Philippians 1:8 God knows how much I love you and long for you with the tender compassion of Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 14:21 (MSG) It’s criminal to ignore a neighbor in need, but compassion for the poor—what a blessing!
Romans 9:15 - For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Illusion Quotes

Quotes About Illusion 

  • Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. --Michael Jordan
  • Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid. --Mark McGwire
  • The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. --Daniel J. Boorstin


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Sometimes, life can be like an illusion—a magic trick—except we’ve found ourselves a part of the mirage. Magic can seem, well, magical, until we realize we’ve been duped; and then, all we are left with is disappointment. Instead, immerse yourself in a life full of honesty and realness. Don’t fall for the tricks.


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Ecclesiastes 5:7 (MSG) But against all illusion and fantasy and empty talk There’s always this rock foundation: Fear God!
Isaiah 30:10 CSB - They say to the seers, "Do not see," and to the prophets, "Do not prophesy the truth to us. Tell us flattering things. Prophesy illusions.
Proverbs 14:18 (MSG) Foolish dreamers live in a world of illusion; wise realists plant their feet on the ground.
Psalm 62:9  Common people are only a vapor; important people, an illusion. Together on a scale, they weigh less than a vapor.
Psalms 4:2 (MSG) You rabble—how long do I put up with your scorn? How long will you lust after lies? How long will you live crazed by illusion?
Zechariah 10:2 CSB - For the idols speak falsehood, and the diviners see illusions; they relate empty dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they suffer affliction because there is no shepherd.
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Thursday, November 16, 2023

Sheep Quotes

Quotes About Sheep / Shepherd

  • A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. --Edward R. Murrow
  • We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime, and that’s what it’s become, of being different. --David Icke
  • We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. --Mark Twain





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Ezekiel 34:10 (MSG) “‘Watch out! I’m coming down on the shepherds and taking my sheep back. They’re fired as shepherds of my sheep. No more shepherds who just feed themselves! I’ll rescue my sheep from their greed. They’re not going to feed off my sheep any longer!
Revelation 18:13 - cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
1 Peter 2:25 - For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Hebrews 13:20 - Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,
Hebrews 11:37 - They were stoned, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated—
Romans 8:36 - As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Acts 8:32 - Now the passage of the Scripture that he was reading was this: “Like a sheep he was led to the slaughter and like a lamb before its shearer is silent, so he opens not his mouth.
John 21:17 - He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
John 21:16 - He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.”
John 10:27 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
John 10:26 - but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
John 10:16 - And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
John 10:15 - just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:13 - He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
John 10:12 - He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
John 10:11 - I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:8 - All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
John 10:7 - So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
John 10:4 - When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.
John 10:3 - To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
John 10:2 - But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Voice Quotes

Quotes About Voice

  • A beautiful woman uses her lips for Truth, her voice for Kindness, her ears for Compassion, her hands for Charity and her heart for Love. For those who do not like her, she uses Prayer.
  • Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. --Henry Winkler
  • The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love. --Jean de la Bruyere
  • The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. --Sigmund Freud
  • When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. --Malala Yousafzai
  • Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning. --Maya Angelou
  • The ones who have a voice must speak for those who are voiceless. --Oscar Romero






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In this episode, Chris Goede and Perry Holley delve into aspiring leaders' pursuit of a seat at the organizational table, exploring motivations and necessary actions. They highlight prioritizing influence over title, advocating a broad perspective for organizational value, and underscore the significance of expressing a viewpoint, engaging in conversations, and maintaining a service-oriented mindset. The episode concludes by emphasizing the crucial balance of confidence and humility in leadership, highlighting the value of humility.



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Matthew 3:17 And a voice from heaven said, “This is my dearly loved Son, who brings me great joy.”
Proverbs 5:13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
Acts 10:15 (MSG) The voice came a second time: “If God says it’s okay, it’s okay.”
John 9:37 (MSG) Jesus said, “You’re looking right at him. Don’t you recognize my voice?”
John 5:25 “And I assure you that the time is coming, indeed it’s here now, when the dead will hear my voice - the voice of the Son of God. And those who listen will live.
Acts 12:22 The people gave him a great ovation, shouting, “It’s the voice of a god, not of a man!”
John 10:27 ESV My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with me.
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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Principle Quotes

Quotes About Principle

  • Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
  • Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
  • The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before. Steve Young
  • I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not. Jim Elliot
  • Strike from mankind the principles of faith, and man would have no more history than a flock of sheep. John Bulwer
  • The 7 modern sins: politics without principles, pleasures without conscience, wealth without work, knowledge without character, industry without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice Canon Frederic Donaldson
  • It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. Thomas Jefferson
  • It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.  Alfred Adler
  • Principle -- particularly moral principle -- can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. Edward R. Lyman
  • I am a man of fixed and unbending principles the first of which is to be flexible at all times. Everett Dirksen
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) US general and politician
  • A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine
  • It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
  • It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Alder
  • The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.  --Steve Young
  • Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. --Albert Einstein
  • A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. --Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. --THOMAS PAINE








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It’s not who gets the most things done, but the one you gets the right things done who wins.  By winning we mean achieving the desired outcomes and results. Today, we will look into the five principles for being a high-priority leader.

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Romans 5:1 Therefore having been justified on the principle of faith, we have peace towards God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Titus 3:5 not on the principle of works which have been done in righteousness which we had done, but according to his own mercy he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Galatians 4:3 - In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.
Galatians 4:9 - But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?
Hebrews 5:12 - For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
John 14:15 ESV “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Alert Quotes

Quotes About Alert

  • A nation, like a person, has a mind - a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors - all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.
  • Always be Alert and Expect anything when you around your enemies or haters. --Reverend-Leon
  • Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done. --Pat Riley




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Matthew 25:13 (MSG) “So stay alert. You have no idea when he might arrive.
Ecclesiastes 10:9 (MSG) Safety first: Quarrying stones is dangerous. Be alert: Felling trees is hazardous.
Proverbs 15:3 (MSG) God doesn’t miss a thing— he’s alert to good and evil alike.
2 Chronicles 6:40 (MSG) And now, dear God, be alert and attentive to prayer, all prayer, offered in this place.
Jeremiah 46:14 (MSG) “Tell Egypt, alert Migdol, post warnings in Noph and Tahpanhes: ‘Wake up! Be prepared! War’s coming!’
Matthew 10:16 (MSG) “Stay alert. This is hazardous work I’m assigning you. You’re going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don’t call attention to yourselves. Be as shrewd as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
Acts 20:31 - Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to admonish every one with tears.
Ephesians 6:18 - praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,
Colossians 4:2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded.
1 Peter 5:8 Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
Ephesians 6:18 Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
Luke 21:36 Keep alert at all times. And pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man.”Colossians 4:2
Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 So be on your guard, not asleep like the others. Stay alert and be clearheaded.
1 Peter 5:8 Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.
Ephesians 6:18 Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all believers everywhere.
Luke 21:36 Keep alert at all times. And pray that you might be strong enough to escape these coming horrors and stand before the Son of Man.”
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Sunday, August 27, 2023

Opportunity Quotes

Quotes About Opportunity


  • A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities And an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Harry Truman
  • A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Sir Winston Churchill
  • A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. --FRANCIS BACON
  • Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. Muriel Spark
  • Carpe diem! - Seize the day! from the film Dead Poet's Society
  • 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 Auto Racer
  • Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. Stephen Covey
  • Enthusiasm finds opportunities, and energy makes the most of them. Henry Hoskins
  • Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford (1863-1947) American Industrialist
  • Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. Kahlil Gibran
  • Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them. Colton
  • He is rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
  • I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on. Samuel Goldwyn
  • If opportunity doesn't knock build a door. Milton Berle
  • If you miss an opportunity, do not cloud your eyes with tears. Keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one. unknown
  • If you miss an opportunity, do not cloud your eyes with tears; keep your vision clear so that you will not miss the next one. unknown 
  • It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity. Frederick Phillips
  • Luck is an opportunity met by preparation -- and to be prepared or unprepared is a personal choice. Neil Boortz
  • Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Coach Darrel Royal
  • Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. Lucille Ball
  • Many do with opportunities as children do at the seashore; they fill their little hands with sand, and then let the grains fall through, one by one, till all are gone, Thomas Jones
  • Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful. Denis Waitley
  • Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) British Prime Minister and novelist
  • Opportunities - Small or Big. They come and go. Some will be easy to take advantage of some will be difficult. But once we let them pass in hopes of something better those opportunities may never again be available. Always grab the first opportunity. unknown
  • Opportunities are problems in search of solutions. Denis Waitley
  • Opportunities may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever.
  • Opportunity is a moving target, and the bigger the opportunity, the faster it moves. Richard Gaylord Briley (Writer)
  • Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. --THOMAS EDISON
  • Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him. --BAYARD TAYLOR
  • Opportunity never knocks; it is within you. Denis Waitley
  • Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Napoleon Hill
  • Pa, he always said a man had to look spry for himself, because nobody else would do it for him; your opportunities didn't come knocking around, you had to hunt them up and hog-tie them. Louis L'Amour
  • Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. Henry J. Kaiser
  • Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory. F.W. Faber
  • Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. Horace, Roman poet (65-8 B.C.)
  • So, then, to every man his chance -- to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining golden opportunity -- to every man his right to live, to work, to be himself, to become whatever his manhood and his vision can combine to make him -- this, seeker, is the promise of America. Thomas Wolfe
  • Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity. Alberta Flanders
  • The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. Orison Swett Marden
  • The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill
  • There is no security in life, only opportunity. Denis Waitley
  • There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity. Douglas MacArthur
  • Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth. Nido Qubein
  • Thou hast only to follow the wall far enough and there will be a door in it. Marguerite de Angeli (The Door In The Wall)
  • To compete in the Olympic Games has always been a dream. The opportunity I have to represent my country at them is unbelievably exciting. David Beard
  • To welcome an enemy is to take the opportunity to expand my heart. unknown
  • Too often the opportunity knocks, but by the time you disengage the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarms, it's too late. Rita Coolidge (Singer)
  • Trials are not enemies of faith but are opportunities to prove God's faithfulness.
  • We are told that talent creates its own opportunities, but it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. Eric Hoffer
  • What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life. Brian Tracy
  • When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922, Inventor
  • When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters--one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. John F. Kennedy
  • You don't just luck into things...You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities. Barbara Bush


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What is the Opportunity? | MWM
Find The Opportunity In Your Challenge = Find the opportunity in your challenge. It is easy to focus on the obstacle and get discouraged, but ask yourself this: What is the opportunity in the challenge you are facing right now? If you can answer it, it'll give you hope and a light at the end of the tunnel as you realize that there is an opportunity in what you are going through.




The 3 Elements of Prime Opportunity | MWM
Step Outside Your Comfort Zone = Success often hinges on our ability to seize significant opportunities when they appear. It involves calculated risk taking and stepping outside of your comfort zone. Is there an opportunity that you need to seize today? Outline the benefits and steps to capitalize on the opportunity and then take action!




Which Book of John Maxwell’s is His Favorite? | MWM
Be Excited By Your Opportunities = Opportunity should excite us! An opportunistic person must bring excitement with them into the next opportunity and moment of impact. As you take the day on, look for opportunities to better fulfill the purpose, mission, and vision that you as a leader are carrying. When you look at every moment as an opportunity to be more effective, you become more effective.




Problems Will Improve You If You Let Them | MWM
Problems Create Opportunities = The seventh principle of problem-solving is believing there is always an opportunity. All problems create opportunities when you have the right attitude. If you look at a problem correctly, there is always an answer, always a lesson, and always an opportunity.
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This Greek Statue Inspired Our Understanding of Opportunity
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Schedule Your Priorities = You can grab an opportunity when it comes at you, but you can’t grab hold of it after it has passed. This is a reminder of how to manage time. If you manage your time well, you can seize opportunities. The issue isn’t prioritizing your schedule, but scheduling your priorities, so you can seize the moments when they come.


Opportunity Opens Doors and Expands Your Life
Chase Opportunities And Discover New Possibilities = Discovering an opportunity can be very satisfying. Once you find an opportunity and seize the moment, your life begins to expand and open up with possibilities that you never imagined. Find, chase, and maximize opportunities and gain returns.



Statement of Strength for Leaders...Opportunity = Today’s Statement of Strength: “In the middle of the difficulty lies opportunity.” –Albert Einstein


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Work for the Opportunity = Opportunities come and go, some without warning. You must be prepared in order to succeed! Practice day in and day out, so when that opportunity arises you are ready to face it head-on.



Create the Opportunity -- Stop avoiding the problem, and achieve the opportunity. Don't sit back and wait for life to happen, instead, create the life you want. By doing so - you will stop waiting for the right moment and start living in the moment.

Every Problem Is An Opportunity In Disguise = Every problem that comes to you has an opportunity. Even if you don't see it initially, each problem has a unique solution and opportunity, and has the potential to help you grow as a leader. 

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Ephesians 5:15-20 ESV Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, ...
James 2:18 ESV But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Galatians 6:10 ESV So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
2 Peter 3:9 ESV The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Colossians 4:5 ESV Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Psalm 100:3 ESV Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Galatians 5:13 For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word [as an official messenger]; be ready when the time is right and even when it is not [keep your sense of urgency, whether the opportunity seems favorable or unfavorable, whether convenient or inconvenient, whether welcome or unwelcome]; correct [those who err in doctrine or behavior], warn [those who sin], exhort and encourage [those who are growing toward spiritual maturity], with inexhaustible patience and [faithful] teaching.
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