Without a purpose nothing should be done.
To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind.
Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.
No pleasure philosophy no sensuality no place nor power no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.
Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic yet it seems like it's a great secret.
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the w...
It is when things go hardest when life becomes most trying that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without it is all the more necessary to have a fount to d...
In everything one must consider the end.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
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