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As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
— Toni Morrison
Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes. Fervently, for a year she had prayed. Although somewhat discouraged, she was not without hope. To have something as wonderful as that would take a long, long time.
— Toni Morrison
If there's a book you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
— Toni Morrison
But looking at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over.
— Toni Morrison
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
— Kesha
The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.
— Kobe Bryant
But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.
— Carol Burnett
Every human being has a strategic role in God's purposes for the world. Every human being possesses a derived significance--grounded in God himself. And every human being is summoned to the highest of all possible aspirations--not to be God, but 'to be like' God himself. God is the standard for who we are and what our mission is in this world. By pursuing this loftiest of all goals, we move toward true flourishing as human beings.
— Carolyn Custis James
We are God's eyes and ears, his hands and feet, his voice in this world. He didn't just level the playing field between men and women; he raised the bar sky high for both sexes, for he wants his image bearers to aspire, to push ourselves, and to reach toward the high calling he has entrusted to us.
— Carolyn Custis James
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
— George Washington Carver
Young—never settle for less than the spiritual and moral grandeur of which you're capable, with the help of God's grace.
— George Weigel
It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though limits to our abilities do not exist.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin