A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future...
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
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...
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea one great overmastering purpose overshadowing all his aims and guiding and controlling his entire life.
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I...
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Happy the man who knows his duties!
A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
I think the purpose of life is to be useful to be responsible to be honorable to be compassionate. It is after all to matter: to count to stand for something to have made some difference that y...
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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