It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice the dress the look the very motions of a person define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
If I had one wish for my children it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.
He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea in the conquest of the goal pursued.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
If we could only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation we would be startled at our fa...
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!
A useless life is an early death.
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