Once you begin the journey toward a life of purpose, you enter the realm of real magic.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

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.

When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Action expresses priorities.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain forever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.