Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
Interpretation
Encourage young people to pursue the seemingly impossible, as they may achieve what others deem unachievable.
This quote suggests that young people should not be discouraged by the limitations and impossibilities often set by society. It highlights the idea that innovation and breakthroughs often come from those who do not yet understand what is deemed impossible, implying that ignorance in this context can lead to remarkable achievements. By promoting an open mindset, we allow potential to flourish.
In practice
This quote can be used in a graduation speech to inspire young graduates to pursue their dreams.
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.
He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.
I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.
To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit that serves as the life-blood of our own country β your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
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