You can make a board for all the goals you want in your life with the pictures on it, and that's great, daydreaming is wonderful, but you can never plan your future.
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
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.
There is no such thing as expecting too much.
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. -Samuel Johnson No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one...
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
One of the most important factors not only in military matters but in life as a whole is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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...
Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Your ultimate goal should be partners with your ultimate fear.