The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
Hope is a waking dream.
- Topic: Dreams, Hope
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We acquire a particular quality by acting in a particular way.
Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.
A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.
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If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Now, I say to you today my friends, event though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.
We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
