Provoking Quotes - Page 9

• We are connected to each other not only as humans, but to every living thing on the planet.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Planets, Connected

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• There's no such thing as no chance.

  Henry Ford

  Challenges, Inspire, Chance

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• No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That's the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.

  Jack Welch

  Jobs, Challenges, Inspire

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• Developing countries present a real opportunity for sustainable consumption. There, we can start from a clean slate and develop appropriate products and services that serve people's needs in a more efficient, integrated way.

  Paul Meyer

  Country, Real, Opportunity

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• Economic history is the most fundamental branch of history; not the most important. Foundations exist to carry better things.

  John Clapham

  Challenges, Inspire, Important

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• Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Challenges, Inspire

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• The forces, movements, and energies that today we call religious, spiritual, or faith-based have related through the ages in diverse ways to the spheres of life that today we call economic and that we see embodied in business and commerce.

  Martin E. Marty

  Spiritual, Religious, Challenges

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• There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

  Walter Wright

  Running, Believe, Character

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• Within the character of the citizen, lies the welfare of the nation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Lying, Character, Challenges

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• Another name for peace is development.

  Pope John Paul II

  Names, Challenges, Inspire

  Pope John Paul II (2007). “Pope John Paul II: A Reader”

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• Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Important, Sometimes

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• Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

  Jonas Salk

  Motivational, Dream, Thought Provoking

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• Dreamers only dream, but creators bring their dreams into reality.

  Robert Fritz

  Motivational, Dream, Reality

  Robert Fritz (2014). “The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life”, p.118, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• As a man is, so he sees.

  William Blake

  Motivational, Men, Thought Provoking

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.702, Univ of California Press

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• Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Thought Provoking, Focus

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Track, Justice, Thought Provoking

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• To quarrel with God is to pay God the supreme compliment: it is to take God seriously. It is to say that God matters enough to be worth some anger. To be indifferent to God is to pay God the supreme insult. It is to say that nothing of consequence is at stake.

  Robert McAfee Brown

  Thought Provoking, Matter, Pay

  Robert McAfee Brown (1983). “Elie Wiesel, messenger to all humanity”

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• One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, May, Matter

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• If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

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• We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Thought Provoking, Worry, Church

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• It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Ocean, Thought Provoking, Drops In The Ocean

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• First they arrested the Communists - but I was not a Communist, so I did nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats - but was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then they arrested the trade unionists - and I did nothing because I was not one. And then they came for the Jews and then the Catholics, but I was neither a Jew nor a Catholic and I did nothing. At last they came and arrested me - and there was no one left to do anything about it.

  Martin Niemoller

  Thought Provoking, Catholic, Lasts

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• Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.

  Jaroslav Pelikan

  Life, Death, Faith

  Jaroslav Pelikan, Valerie R. Hotchkiss, Patrick Henry (2005). “Orthodoxy & Western Culture: A Collection of Essays Honoring Jaroslav Pelikan on His Eightieth Birthday”, p.16, St Vladimir's Seminary Press

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• Don't fall into the trap of studying the Bible without doing what it says.

  Francis Chan

  Fall, Thought Provoking, Study

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.382, David C Cook

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