"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually……" — William Arthur Ward
"Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards."
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132 Quotes by William Arthur Ward
William Arthur Ward has 132 quotes on this site.
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As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the…
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To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of…
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Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
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Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
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I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing…
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Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development
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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
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The momentary thrill of getting rarely equals the lasting joy of giving.
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The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.
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More Beckon Quotes
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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation…
— Franklin P. Adams
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When that happens [the demise of golf], old men will furtively beckon to their sons and, like fugitives from the…
— Alistair Cooke
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The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their…
— Unknown Author
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I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college.…
— Barack Obama
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Let me but find it in my heart to say, When vagrant wishes beckon me astray, "This is my work;…
— Henry Van Dyke
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In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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The way to maintain one's connection to the wild is to ask yourself what it is that you want. This…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great…
— Ian Curtis
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The protestant world is in great need of examples (like these) that will beckon us to the fullness of God.
— Mike Bickle
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Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves.…
— John Jakes
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Please allow me to beckon ye, paramours!
— Theodore Long
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