No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
- Topic: Ambition, Goals, Thinking
- Location: Canyonlands National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.
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.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
It is stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.
If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
When a person can't find a deep meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
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.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
