People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

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.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave.

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

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

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

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.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

This is the thing that I was born to do.