A great flame follows a little spark.
- Topic: Action, Goals, Purpose, Vision, Work
- Location: Yosemite National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Action expresses priorities.
Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.
Never discourage someone who is working toward a goal, no matter their speed!
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Never cross a man, not afraid to die.
But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.
Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
