Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.
- Topic: Opportunity, Time
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There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
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There's always an opportunity to make a difference.
To succeed, jump as quickly as opportunity as you do at conclusions.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work. So most people don’t recognize them.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Life is short. Time is fast. No replay, no rewind. Enjoy every moment as it comes.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.