This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lou Holtz, fully Louis Leo "Lou" Holtz
The greatest power God gave us is the power to choose. We have the opportunity to choose whether we’re going to act or procrastinate, believe or doubt, pray or curse, help or heal. We also choose whether we’re going to be happy or whether we’re going to be sad.
Cicero, fully Marcus Tullius Cicero, anglicized as Tully NULL
Without doubt, the highest privilege of wealth is the opportunity it affords for doing good, without giving up one’s fortune.
Doubt | Fortune | Giving | Good | Opportunity | Wealth | Privilege |
Maltbie Babcock, fully Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us. To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet the supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.
No one is born with good character. It's not hereditary. Yet everyone, regardless of background, enters the world with the opportunity to become a person of exemplary character.
Character | Good | Opportunity | World |
Noam Chomsky, fully Avram Noam Chomsky
More democratic societies, including the United States, instituted measures to impose discipline on the domestic population and to institute unpopular measures under the guise of "combating terror," exploiting the atmosphere of fear and the demand for "patriotism" - which in practice means: "You shut up and I'll pursue my own agenda relentlessly." The Bush administration used the opportunity to advance its assault against most of the population, and future generations, in service to the narrow corporate interests that dominate the administration to an extent even beyond the norm.
Administration | Discipline | Fear | Future | Means | Opportunity | Patriotism | Practice | Service | Terror |
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
Disagreement | Doubt | Man | Mind | Opportunity |
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in ever fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
Beauty | God | Opportunity | Beauty | God |
The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power.
Action | Opportunity | Power | Scholar | Loss |
No matter what happened to you in the past, your future is spotless. Realize that every dawn brings with it the corresponding opportunity to begin a completely new life.
At the heart of all religions is the certainty that there is a fundamental truth, and that this life is a sacred opportunity to evolve and realize it.
Stephen Covey, fully Stephen Richards Covey
An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success.
Desire | Knowledge | Opportunity | Organization | Skill | Success |
Hiding your faults from others so they won’t correct you might save you from momentary unpleasantness, but you will remain with your faults... Fear of criticism stems from inferiority feelings... If you feel hurt by someone’s criticism, remember it is your choice to feel hurt. You can choose self-statements that allow you to feel grateful for the opportunity to improve yourself.
Choice | Criticism | Fear | Feelings | Inferiority | Opportunity | Self | Will |
Chinua Achebe, formally Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe
Creation is a continuing process... One meaning of our life, then, is the opportunity and challenge it presents to us for participation in the continuous process of creation - through discussion and cooperative work rather than conflict.
Challenge | Discussion | Life | Life | Meaning | Opportunity | Work |
Daniel Boorstin, fully Daniel Joseph Boorstin
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Freedom | Means | Opportunity | Thought | Thought |
The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given, the weather conditions that prevail at the ...moment.
Circumstances | Faith | Family | Opportunity | Will |