“The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.” PeopleDoeFactsSpiritChanceGrowingFeetFlowerProveLovelyPrizeWeedChances AreFlowers Growing Author:Antonin Dvorak
“Notwithstanding the poverty of my outside experience, I have always had a significance for myself, and every chance to stumle along my straight and narrow little path, and to worship at the feet of my Deity, and what more can a human soul ask for?” HumansLittlesSoulAsksChancePovertyPathFeetWorshipSignificanceDeitiesHuman Soul Author:Alice James
“As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.” NeedsTwoLeftGivenChanceAbilityViewsTeacherFeetIncreasePoint Of ViewBuckminster Fuller Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.” WorldWayTogetherStarsChanceDestinyRiskOne ThingTreeFeetThousandRiversDignityListsLinksMudDecencyClosingChances AreUnbreakableLeopardsPine Trees Author:Mary Oliver
“A man should orient his will and all his works to God and having only God in view go forward unafraid, not thinking, am I right or am I wrong? One who worked out all the chances before starting his first fight would never fight at all. And if, going to someplace, we must think how to set the front foot down, we shall never get there. It is our duty to do the next thing: go straight on, that is the right way.” IfsThinkingMenWayShouldFirstsFightingNextChanceViewsFeetFrontsDutyStartingRight WayUnafraid Author:Meister Eckhart
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.” IfsWayWantNeedsCan DoChanceMillionsDoorsFeetWhat You WantCan Do SomethingWedges Author:Pauline Kael
“People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.” PeopleGivenSocialChanceFeetTreatedSecureAbandonedLaddersGiven A Chance Author:David Bowie
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” LifeSuccessLosesChanceCourageRiskFeetOneselfDareGreat ThingsLoserDaringTake A ChanceChances AreHave CourageTaking RisksRisk-takingFear And CourageGreat RiskOne ChanceInspirational CourageChance And RiskRisks And Taking ChancesRisking Your HeartDaring To Be Great Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.” PeopleGivenChanceDoorsFeetDeafOverlookedDeafnessGiven A Chance Author:Marlee Matlin
“For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.” PeopleGivingYearsFirstsMadeTwoFilmNextHouseChanceDealsPayFourFeetBrotherMade ItTwo YearsMortgageRogerWarner Brothers Author:Michael Moore