“Have your own dream! It doesn’t have to be big and fancy like walking to the South Pole but have your own damn dream.” Robert Swan January 17, 1912 – South Pole, Antarctica: British explorer Robert Scott stared in disbelief at the flag with a blue...
“I never prayed sincerely and earnestly about anything, but it came at some time; no matter how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.” Adoniram Judson October 1811 – Boston, Massachusetts: When...
“The ability of God is beyond our prayers, beyond our largest prayers. We have asked for a cupful and the ocean remains.” John Henry Jowett 1401 A.D. London, England: King Henry IV declared that religious heretics would be burned at the stake. Seven...
You must never think about whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need and how to meet it.” Clara Barton Christmas...
“Harriet Tubman reveled in defying men, defying governments, defying slavery and defying slave catchers who put a $40,000 bounty on her head. This Black woman who stood five feet tall was utterly and completely fearless.” ...
“Would anyone but a crazy person do this? I am a prisoner of my dream.” Philippe Petit 1968 – Dentist office, Paris, France: The magazine article mesmerized 18-year-old Philippe. He tore the article out and stuffed it in his pocket. It was about the construction of...
