“Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 38 of 204
“What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.”
“The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.”
“I believe that luck is opportunity meeting preparation.”
“I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.”
“True #leadership isn't the bastion of a few who sit at the top ... We all need to step up, take the risk and put our interests second-not always-but when it counts.”
“The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present”
“Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.”
“In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.”
“First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.”
“The future is better than the past. Despite the crepe hangers, romanticists, and anti-intellectuals, the world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better. With hands ... with tools ... with horse sense and science and engineering.”
“No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.”
“Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.”
“I think that we will come out on top as women, as people of color, as Muslims, as transgender people, as people who are part of the disabled community - I think that we'll come out on top.”
“I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.”
“Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.”
“Those people who think only of themselves, are hopelessly uneducated. They are not educated, no matter how instructed they may be.”
“I always believe things are going to work out.”
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
“It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.”