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.
You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
I'm not afraid to take a step and if I fall, I fall. I pick myself up and move on. If we can all learn one thing in life, it's don't be afraid to take on something that you believe you're capable of achieving.
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.
The day when I start a race without intending to win it, I won't be able to look at myself in the mirror.
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