“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
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Optimistic Quotes — page 6 of 204
“No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!”
“I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.”
“So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.”
“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
“I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'”
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”
“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”
“If you give people light, they will find their own way.”
“To me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.”
“You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.”
“I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.”
“To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.”
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.”
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”
“The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.”
“If you can change your mind, you can change your life.”
“You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.”
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”