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.
What most counts is not to live but to live aright.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.
You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous but I woul...
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.
The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest o...
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.
Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
The full-grown modern human being ... 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.
I would encourage you to set really high goals. Set goals that, when you set them, you think they're impossible. But then every day you can work towards them, and anything is possible, so keep working...
I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.
Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leader...
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