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"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert Francis Kennedy 4.9600 average rating Rate this Quote
"How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot." Albert Einstein 4.9375 average rating Rate this Quote
"Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Robert Francis Kennedy 4.9259 average rating Rate this Quote
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." Richard David Bach 4.9250 average rating Rate this Quote
"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love." Reinhold Niebuhr 4.9231 average rating Rate this Quote
"Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.9167 average rating Rate this Quote
"Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day! Such is the salutation of the dawn." Kalidasa 4.9158 average rating Rate this Quote
"No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some rainbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high." Harriet Du Autermont 4.9048 average rating Rate this Quote
"Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous half possession... Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.9000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less." Robert Edward Lee 4.8966 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man." Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future." Charles Franklin Kettering 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"Something unpredictable but in the end it's right, I hope you have the time of your life." Greenday 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"[Today's students] can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. ... If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude." Jesse Louis Jackson 4.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"Weep for the lives your wishes never led." Wystan Hugh Auden 4.8462 average rating Rate this Quote
"It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 4.8462 average rating Rate this Quote
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." John Quincy Adams 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One is roots; the other, wings." Hodding Carter 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own." Confucius 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it." Sir James Matthew Barrie 4.8269 average rating Rate this Quote
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