Dreams Quotes by Woodrow Wilson

21 Dreams quotes by Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson never wrote a novel, but his thoughts on dreams reveal a leader’s quiet optimism. This collection of twenty‑one statements balances his statesmanlike perspective with a surprisingly personal look at hope.

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We grow by our dreams.

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I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.

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“I not only use all the dreams that I have, but all that I can borrow.”

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The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise.

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We never found a real model (for our vision).

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“You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,…

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No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.

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Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring…

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Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days 'till they bring them…

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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse. Untrammeled reasoning is the indulgence of the philosopher, of the dreamer of sweet…

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“You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope…

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America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal - to discover and maintain liberty…

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My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to…

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We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse…

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All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of…

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My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men…

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You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,…

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At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good……

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I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for…

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We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even…

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My dream is that as the years go by and the world knows more and more of America, itwill turn to America…

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days;…

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There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

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One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

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I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine…

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Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

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America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.

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...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their…

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The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

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The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost…

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Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over.

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The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the…

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When I think of the flag… I see alternate strips of parchment upon which are written the rights of liberty and justice, and stripes…

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If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

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Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

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