"The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities are abundant. In an affluent society, the alienated who clamor for power are largely untalented people who cannot make use of the unprecedented opportunities for self-realization, and cannot escape the confrontation with an ineffectual self."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Opportunity Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“If you believe, you can achieve - thats my motto!”
“Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.”

Source : 'Polyhymnia' (1590) ad fin. 'Sonnet'
“I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.”
“No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.”

Source : Stanley Fish (2011). “How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One”, p.17, Harper Collins
“I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.”
“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”
“We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage......w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.”

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