Quote by Joshua Chamberlain
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we ma

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. – Joshua Chamberlain

Other quotes by Joshua Chamberlain

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, – to give lifes best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. – Joshua Chamberlain

Category:
best
Read Quote

But the cause for which we fought was higher our thought wider… That thought was our power. – Joshua Chamberlain

Category:
power
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Dreams
category

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Dreams

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality. – James A. Michener

Category:
Dreams

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of peoples hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct. – Martin Mull

Category:
Dreams

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Dreams

Random Quotes

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough. – William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

Category:
Philosophical

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

Category:
design

What I hope is in five years time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked. – Nick Clegg

Category:
Hope