Life and Existence

But if a person has had the sense of the Call -- the feeling that there's an adventure for him -- and if he doesn't follow that, but remains in the society because it's safe and secure, then life dries up.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

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.

Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

Plan for the future, because that is where you are going to spend the rest of your life.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny, but what we put into it is ours.