O Quotes
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“One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.”
“One of the greatest challenges facing civilization in the twenty-first century is for human beings to learn to speak about their deepest personal concerns-about ethics, spiritual experience, and the inevitability of human suffering-in ways that are not flagrantly irrational. We desperately need a public discourse that encourages critical thinking and intellectual honesty. Nothing stands in the way of this project more that the respect we accord religious faith.”
Source: Letter to a Christian Nation
“One of the greatest challenges facing humanity is that of being able to live with one another in a peaceful and civilized way. We all have our individual uniqueness and perceptions of how we believe the world ought to function. This creates conflict unless there is a deeper realization in the collective consciousness and an understanding that most human desires desecrate the beauty of the nowness of life.”
Source: Mindfulness Meditation: Bringing Mindfulness into Everyday Life
“One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all that it offers. Worldly standards will always be in a state of flux. The only true and unchanging standards are those set by the Savior and His teachings of the restored gospel.”
“One of the greatest challenges for civilized men is asking for what they want.”
Source: Man Uncivilized
“One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.”
“One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.”
“One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.”
“One of the greatest challenges is to rise above the desire to reinvent who we are and boldly embrace the far loftier challenge of cultivating who we are. For reinventing is to construct what we will never be, while cultivating is to expand who we always were.”
“One of the greatest challenges of a parent is to save their teenagers from themselves, while the culture is declaring that it is trying to save them from their parents.”
“One of the greatest comedies of this life is that a person thinks that he is doing a very important job while doing unimportant work!”
“One of the greatest concerns that I had when I became President was the vast array of nuclear weapons in the arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a few other countries, and also the great proliferation of conventional weapons, non-nuclear weapons, particularly as a tremendous burden on the economies of developing or very poor countries.”
“One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.”
“One of the greatest dangers is secular religion - state worship.”
“One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult.”
“One of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they'll try to make you believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it's a rick. The assault is never personal, the blaming is.”
Source: Know My Name
“One of the greatest dangers of victimhood is the singling out; all of your attributes and anecdotes assigned blame. In court they'll try to make you believe you are unlike the others, you are different, an exception. You are dirtier, more stupid, more promiscuous. But it's a trick. The assault is never personal, the blaming is.”
Source: Know My Name
“One of the greatest dangers to peace lies in the economic pressure to which people find themselves subjected. One of the most practical things to be done in the world is to seek arrangements under which such pressure may be removed, so that opportunity may be renewed and hope may be revived.”
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.”
“One of the greatest desires of the human heart is to see and be seen, to have someone acknowledge our story and see it as important and beautiful, and then comfort the pain that lies in the gaps.”
Source: Steady in the Storm: Walking through addiction as a newlywed
“one of the greatest deterrents to successful investing is the three-letter word ego.”
Source: The power of money dynamics
“One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.”
“One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.”
Source: Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
“One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.”
“One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe "liberty" on its banners instead of "justice." Because "liberty" was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning "freedom from justice"; then when religion and decent government attempted to bring them back to justice, organized into "freedom groups" they protested that their constitutional and natural rights were being violated.”
“One of the greatest disconnects for this generation is how life and work fit together. There is a need to talk about purpose in life, vocation, and calling. We need to provide a stronger theology of work to help them make integrated connections to their daily lives.”
“One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.”
“One of the greatest discoveries you could actually discover in life is the treasure of solitude.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
“One of the greatest disservices we do to our students is to teach them that universal physical law is something that obviously ought to be true and thus may be legitimately learned by rote. This is terrible on many levels, the worst probably being the missed lesson that meaningful things have to be fought for and often require great suffering tomorrow achieve. The attitude of complacency is also opposite to the one that brought these beautiful new ideas into the world in the first place—indeed, what brings things of great importance into the world generally.”
Source: A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down
“One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.”
“One of the greatest distinguishing marks of false prophet is that he will always tell you what you want to hear, he will never rain on your parade; he will get you clapping, he will get you jumping, he will make you dizzy, he will keep you entertained, and he will present a Christianity to you that will make your church look like a six flags over Jesus.”
“One of the greatest double standards is how some people are willing to trade their morals, values, dignity, and even personal pain for money. For them, shame or the difference between right and wrong becomes secondary, as long as there is compensation. Often, the pursuit isn't truly about justice, but about making someone pay, because they feel they are owed something. In many cases, it's not justice they seek, but a form of payment.”
“One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!”
“One of the greatest errors in the church today is the artificial distinction we have created between accepting Christ as Savior and confessing Him as Lord. We have made two experiences of it, but the New Testament makes them one.”
Source: Living in Kingdom Come
“One of the greatest ever statement that can keep you at peace with others is that "I am right, but I may be wrong"! Yes, we know you are right but you may be wrong!”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.”
Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
“One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.”
“One of the greatest experiences I ever had was listening to a conversation with Joni Mitchell and Wayne Shorter. Just to hear them talking, my mouth was open. They understand each other perfectly, and they make these leaps and jumps because they don't have to explain anything.”
“ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPERIENCES IN LIFE IS ACHIEVING PERSONAL GOALS THAT OTHERS SAID WOULD BE, 'IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTAIN.' BE PROUD OF YOUR SUCCESS AND SHARE YOUR STORY WITH OTHERS.”
“One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.”
“One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.”
“One of the greatest fallacies you can convey to yourself is that you are undeserving.”
“One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.”
“One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.”
“One of the greatest feats of bravery is to acknowledge the presence of cowardice, but to refuse the possibility of surrender.”
“One of the greatest feats that I can accomplish is to realize how great I am not.”
“One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.”