“May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.”
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Hopeful Quotes — page 280 of 783
“There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.”
“By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.”
“And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.”
“I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.”
“America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade.”
“Communism is trying to take the world by force. But God will take the world by love.”
“To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.”
“If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.”
“My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions”
“If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.”
“We are all the same ... all the same... longing to find our way back ... back to the One ... back to the Only One!”
“If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.”
“Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”
“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
“What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.”
“People need to start becoming more aware of what's going on and doing something to fix it.”
“He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.”
“Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.”
“Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.”