“All men who have achieved great things have been dreamers, and what they have accomplished has been just in proportion to the vividness, the energy and persistency with which they visualized their ideals; held to their dreams and struggled to make them come true.”
“Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere vaporings of the imagination or idle dreams. They are prophecies, predictions, couriers, forerunners of things which can become realities. They are the indicators of our possibilities. They measure the height of our aim, the range of our efficiency.”
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the outline of the image itself: the real substance and not merely a mental image. There is something back of the faith, back of the hope, back of the heart yearnings; there is a reality to match our legitimate longing. “
A few quotes from one of my many favorite books “The Miracle of Right Thought” by Orison Swett Marden in 1910.