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The vision and action must go hand in hand.

Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit.

Preeminently, the power of our advocacy reposes in our example; but no example, be it remembered, can be powerful for lasting good, whatever apparent advantages may be gained, which is not based upon eternal principles of right and justice.

The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer, coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.

We must hope to give them a sense of what it means to be a loyal friend, a loving parent, a citizen who leaves his home, his neighborhood and town better than he found it.

The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.

I ask you to be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character.

Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as it were redeemed.

if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Surely civilization is old enough, surely mankind is mature enough so that we ought in our own lifetime to find a way to permanent peace.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Such a young person persistently believes that behind all suffering, behind sin and want, must lie redeeming magnanimity.

Our young people feel nervously the need of putting theory into action, and respond quickly to the Settlement form of activity.

I will give my all in your service thinking not of power, but of possibilities.

We will lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

You are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Work is love made visible.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with promise and hope.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.