All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Successful people move on their own initiative, but they know where they are going before they start.
- Topic: Goals, Leadership, Planning, Purpose
- Location: Death Valley National Park
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You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.
Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.
He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men—the other 999 follow women.
Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
Man’s goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Can’t is the worst word that is written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is many a strong spirit broken, And with it many a good purpose dies.
The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
