Bruce Wilkinson Quotes

The youth is the hope of our future.

Our task is to help replace ... despair with opportunity.

Everyone is entitled to reach for the stars.

I'm raising a daughter. I want to be able to say to her, "You can be anything you want. You can be the President of the United States." I'd love that.

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

It is so gratifying to hear from people who look up to you and see you in these places that they never thought they could ever dream to be. It's emotional. You really feel like you're opening up people's minds, who otherwise thought that they couldn't dream big. That's such a huge opportunity. It's such a gift.

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

Kids are our future.

I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

I do write all the time about - you tell me what your dreams are. What are you chasing? It's not impossible. Name it.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.

Whatever ought to be, can be.

I want people to realize that they can dream big.

Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

Now that Obama's president, it changes inner-city youths. They can now not just dream to be Lil Waynes and 50 Cents, but they can now dream to be Obamas.

Welcome every talent, hail every invention, cherish every gem of art—foster every gleam of authorship, honor every acquirement and every natural gift, lift ourselves to the level of our destinies...

If you can find ways to give people hope that they can achieve something or make a difference, then there's an opportunity for something good to happen.

I am full of a sense of promise, like I often have: the feeling of always being at the beginning.

The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

You never know who you're talking to. Don't limit a young student's dream, because that's how we change the world.