The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Interpretation
Our current doubts can hinder our future potential.
This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes that the fears and doubts we hold today can prevent us from achieving our goals and realizing our potential in the future. If we let our insecurities and worries dominate our thoughts, we limit our ability to envision and work towards a better tomorrow.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students about their future endeavors.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse of a prosperity whose builders boasted their practicality has come the conviction that in the long run economic morality pays.
Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.
Doing your best means never stop trying.
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