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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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 not die.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Having more money does not insure happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.