Wes Moore Quotes

• Potential is universal, opportunity is not.

  Wes Moore

  Opportunity, Universal

  "Goal 2025: 60% of Americans with Degrees" by Tom Vander Ark, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2016.

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• We're not products of our environments, we're products of our expectations.

  Wes Moore

  Expectations, Environment, Our Environment

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• 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

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

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• 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

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

  Wes Moore

  Opportunity, Men, Cities

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• The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.

  Wes Moore

  Expectations, Helping, Form

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• 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

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.133, Spiegel & Grau

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• I began at some point to understand the whole idea of accountability and responsibility and leadership, and I think that was something that really birthed something in me, where I knew I wanted to be part of a larger equation in our society.

  Wes Moore

  Responsibility, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.11, Spiegel & Grau

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• 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

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau

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• My mother is extraordinary; she's a superwoman, like so many other single mothers who are out there.

  Wes Moore

  Mother, Single Mother, Superwoman

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The importance of education plays a huge role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Roles, Importance Of Education

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.67, Spiegel & Grau

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• Kids need to think that you care before they care what you think.

  Wes Moore

  Kids, Thinking, Needs

  Wes Moore (2015). “The Work: My Search for a Life That Matters”, p.76, Spiegel & Grau

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• I just want to do as much as I can while I can, because none of us are promised anything.

  Wes Moore

  Want, I Can

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount.

  Wes Moore

  Fighting, Important, Finding Peace

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau

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• They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

  Wes Moore

  Gun, Knives

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.121, Spiegel & Grau

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• The work is not simply about an occupation .. but why you are here.

  Wes Moore

  Occupation

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• The importance of high expectations plays a big role.

  Wes Moore

  Play, Expectations, Roles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just want to make sure that public service doesn't have to be an occupation, but it needs to be a way of life.

  Wes Moore

  Way, Needs, Occupation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But really, where leadership is born and where leadership is really bred is.

  Wes Moore

  Born

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