The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice.
Without a goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live.
Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments.
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try—you don’t take the risk.
Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities—always see them, for they’re always there.
What can you do right now to begin building the confidence you need? What small action are you confident enough to take, that will put you on the road to even more confidence?
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty. Think big.
Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.
Winners forget they are in a race, they just love to run.
Movie: With Honors
Guard your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
I want to be excited, thrilled, ecstatic about all sorts of things as long as I live.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.