Calvin Coolidge

A picture is an intermediate something between a thought and a thing.

Topic: Goals, Imagination, Vision
Location: Yellowstone National Park
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

› Calvin Coolidge

Criticism

Communication Listening

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

› Calvin Coolidge

Criticism

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

› Calvin Coolidge

Society

Confidence Self-esteem

Honor

More Quotes from Yellowstone National Park

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. — Andrew Carnegie

Society Trust Wealth

Trying to silence a person speaks. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Speech Truth

Many drops hollow the stone. — Hungarian Proverb

Commitment Consistent Determination Perseverance Persistence

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. — John Wooden

Learning

Time

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso

Action Learning Possibility Risk

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. — Rumi

Alone Possibility Power Self-esteem

The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. — John Stuart Mill

Freedom Liberty

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning. — Kenyan Proverb

Confidence Conflict Courage Fear Negotiation Peace

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Whatever you give your attention to, is the thing that governs your life. — Emmet Fox

Focus Goals Purpose Thinking

The world belongs to the energetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Action Discipline Enthusiasm Goals Purpose

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — Lao-tzu

Goals Perseverance Persistence Purpose Vision

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

› Victor Hugo

Goals Life Purpose

The main thing of importance is to know what one wants. — Napoleon Hill

Goals Purpose

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are much more important than the events that occur. — Vince Lombardi

Adversity Goals Purpose

If there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

› Orison Swett Marden

Freedom Goals Opportunity Purpose

Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn

Appreciation Goals Gratitude

You choose your path. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Accountability Choice Goals Leadership Purpose Reputation Vision

Definiteness of purpose can, and should, so completely occupy the mind that one has no time or space in the mind for thoughts of failure.” — Napoleon Hill

Failure Focus Goals Purpose Success

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

› Edgar Guest

Goals Work

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar. — Helen Keller

Goals Leadership Purpose

You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great. — Zig Ziglar

Action Goals Leadership Work

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

Goals Life

One can have no surrender or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci

Goals Purpose Self

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

› Benjamin Hardy

Decision Goals Purpose Success

Do something every day that you don’t want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. — Mark Twain

Goals Habits

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

› John Dewey

Action Goals Life

What you didn't do can be more important than what you do. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Action Choice Discovery Goals Life

Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. — Viktor Frankl

Destiny Goals Purpose

Imagination

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

› Charles Schwab

Appreciation Dreams Imagination Vision

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

› Albert Einstein

Creativity Imagination Innovation Perception

The power of imagination makes us infinite. — John Muir

Imagination Possibility Power Thinking

Worry is a waste of imagination. — Walt Disney

Confidence Imagination

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

› Isaac Newton

Imagination Truth

Imagination means nothing without doing. — Charlie Chaplin

Action Imagination Work

Imagination

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

› Eleanor Roosevelt

Adventure Imagination Life Thinking

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

› Joseph Conrad

Imagination Truth

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Imagination Perception

Every block of stone has a statue inside. — Michelangelo

Imagination Opportunity

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. — Albert Einstein

Imagination Knowledge

Your free will lies in the directing of your attention. — Emmet Fox

Goals Imagination Purpose Thinking

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

› Epictetus

Imagination Pessimism

We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca

Fear Imagination Perception

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry Truman

Courage Honor Imagination Work

We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine. — Rochefoucauld

Happiness Imagination

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. — James Russell Lowell

Imagination Solitude

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. — Vincent van Gogh

Dreams Imagination Inspiration Purpose Vision Visualize

Through imagination, we can visualize the uncreated worlds of potential that lie within us. — Stephen Covey

Imagination Visualize

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

› Plato

Imagination Life

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination Laughter Work

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

› Walter Cronkite

Commitment Imagination

Where there is no vision, there is no hope. — George Washington Carver

Hope Vision

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. — Thomas Fuller

Action Goals Vision

Dig the well before you are thirsty. — Chinese Proverb

Preparation Vision

The future depends on what you do today. — Mohandas Gandhi

Action Goals Purpose Time Vision

I run on the road long before I dance under the lights. — Muhammad Ali

Goals Preparation Vision

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. — Marcus Aurelius

Vision

We know what we are, but know not what we may be. — William Shakespeare

Courage Fear Purpose Self Self-esteem Vision

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Commitment Confidence Dreams Faith Goals Purpose Vision

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. — William Shakespeare

Goals Purpose Virtue Vision Visualize

The soul never thinks without a mental picture. — Aristotle

Imagination Vision Visualize

Speak the affirmative; emphasize your choice by utter ignoring of all that you reject. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Affirmation Choice Communication Goals Purpose Self Self-esteem Speech Vision

You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — William Adams

Discipline Goals Purpose Vision

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something. — Henry David Thoreau

Goals Purpose Vision

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Accountability Goals Life Purpose Responsibility Vision

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

› Martin Luther King Jr.

Purpose Vision

And thence we came forth, to see again the stars. — Dante

Adversity Goals Purpose Vision

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. — Walt Disney

Business Change Time Vision

Capital isn't scarce; vision is. — Sam Walton

Money Vision

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

› Abraham Lincoln

Dedication Liberty Purpose Vision

The tree remains, but not so the hand that put it. — Irish Proverb

Leadership Purpose Vision

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Accountability Misfortune Vision

They can kill the dreamer, but they can never kill the dream. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Conflict Dreams Freedom Liberty Vision

Practice is the best way to win. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Commitment Practice Vision

Every battle is won before it is fought. — Sun Tzu

Affirmation Negotiation Purpose Vision