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.
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.
What most counts is not to live but to live aright.
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