Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

What keeps me going is that young people still want to see me.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

It is saying these things that keeps us from falling apart. And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them. The light rushes out and floods in.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.

The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.

I have an ultimate faith in America and an audacious faith in mankind.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.

In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

America is the hope of the earth.

So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.