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No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius.

Good enough never is.

The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

People travel in the way of least resistance, by choosing one's environment, one will travel in a particular way.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. For it is not by the possession, but the search after truth that he enlarges his power, wherein alone consists his ever-increasing perfection.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.