Without dreams and goals, there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.
- Topic: Dreams, Goals, Life
- Location: Antelope Canyon
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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We can secure other people’s approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
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.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Looking at the stars always makes me dream.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
