Herbert Hoover Quotes

Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

I think God has blessed each of us with at least one gift. So I think it's a matter of do we find it within our lifetime.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.

You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.

The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

My driving force is spirituality.

Believe in something larger than yourself.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob ... but to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty.

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Edinburgh, Scotland went from a narrow, theocratic, awful society to the intellectuality and free thinking Great Enlightenment in only 100 years.

The duty of an American churchman in China is not simply introducing new ideas into the country, but modifying its industrial, social, and political life and institutions. Missionaries are the pioneers of trade and commerce. Civilization, learning, instruction breed new wants which commerce supplies.

Empowering the individual means empowering the nation. And empowerment is best served through rapid economic growth with rapid social change.

In the recovery world, it's a higher power that helps you. You have to turn your life over to something greater. Anytime I tried to control my life, I had screwed it up.

I always had a desire to see change and be part of it.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?).

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...