Wes Moore famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The young men in our city are not problems to be solved. They are opportunities to be unleashed.
-- Wes Moore

#Men #Opportunity #Cities
Potential is universal. Opportunity is not.
-- Wes Moore

#Opportunity
The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
-- Wes Moore

#Adversity #Fighting #Ubuntu
Do you think that we're products of our environments? I think so, or maybe products of our expectations. Others' expectations of us or our expectations. I mean others' expectations that you take on as your own. I realize how difficult it is to seperate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.
-- Wes Moore

#Mean #Thinking #Two
But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is...
-- Wes Moore

#Born
Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.
-- Wes Moore

#Fighting #Important #Finding Peace
When it is time for you to leave this school, leave your job, or even leave this earth, you make sure you have worked hard to make sure it mattered you were even here.
-- Wes Moore

#Jobs #School #Earth
They hit you with a knife, you find a gun
-- Wes Moore

#Gun #Knives
Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.
-- Wes Moore

#Kids #Thinking #Needs
Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.
-- Wes Moore

#Single Mom #Important #Shapes
The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.
-- Wes Moore

#Tragedy #Stories #Chill
I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.
-- Wes Moore

#Second Chance #Lasts #Sometimes
The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.
-- Wes Moore

#Occupation

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