“Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 272 of 783
“Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain.”
“I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.”
“I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.”
“The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water for 40% of the world's population...Within the next half-century, that 40% of the world's people may well face a very serious drinking water shortage, unless the world acts boldly and quickly to mitigate global warming.”
“...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.”
“Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.”
“To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.”
“Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.”
“It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.”
“Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.”
“I wanted to show America a different kind of man. If there was someone like me when I was growing up, my whole life would have been different.”
“I'm always trying to tackle subjects that tax me and make me think. That's the key to staying young at heart. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body.”
“Knowing something is not as good as liking it. Liking something is not as good as rejoicing in it.”
“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
“Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth.”
“You've only got one life and you have to live it. Take every single lesson as a learning one.”
“Some people have everything Other people don't But everything don't mean a thing If it ain't the thing you want”
“Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.”
“To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime”