Daily
Thoughts to assist in your Daily Struggle for Significance |
1 | ''Ideals
are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the
sea, we chart our course by them.'' - Carl Schurz |
2 | ''May you
reach your Potential.'' - Jason Gursky |
3 | ''To achieve
great things we must live as if we were never going to die.'' - Marquis de Vauvenargues |
4 | ''I don't
dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.'' - Steven Spielberg |
5 | ''The tragedy
in life is not reaching your goal, but having no goal to reach.'' - Benjamin E. Mays |
6 | ''No vision
and you perish.'' - Harriet Du Autermont |
7 | ''The greater
the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain
their reputation from storms and tempests.'' - Epictetus |
8 | ''No period
of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some
sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved
aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.'' - Alfred North Whitehead |
9 | ''An aim
in life is the only fortune worth finding.'' - Jacqueline Kennedy |
10 | ''Optimism
is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope
and confidence.'' - Helen Keller |
11 | ''All progress
depends on the unreasonable man.'' - George Bernard |
12 | ''No man
or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without
enemies.'' - Daisy Bates |
13 | ''If any
man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and
he will find both.'' - Horace Mann |
14 | ''We will
either find a way, or make one.'' - Hannibal |
15 | ''Apathy
can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two
things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second,
a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.'' - Arnold Toynbee |
16 | ''The only
way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the
impossible.'' - Arthur C. Clarke |
17 | ''High achievement
always takes place in a framework of high expectation.'' - Jack Kinder |
18 | ''Unless
a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that
he can.'' - Henry Drummond |
19 | ''Achievement
is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration
. . and expectation.'' - Jack Niklaus |
20 | ''No vision
and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish
some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, some rainbow
in the sky, some melody to sing to, some service that is high.'' - Harriet Du Autermont |
21 | ''As long
as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless
I am striving to bring it into existence.'' - George Bernard |
22 | ''All men
are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.'' - Hermann Hesse |
23 | ''Life is
either a daring adventure or nothing.'' - Helen Keller |
24 | ''Keep away
from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.'' - Mark Twain |
25 | ''Ideals
are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands,
but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as
your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.'' - Carl Schurz |
26 | ''Where
there is no vision the people perish.'' - Bible - Proverbs 29:18 |
27 | ''Vision
is the art of seeing the invisible.'' - Jonathan Swift |
28 | ''Of what
significance are the things you can forget.'' - Henry David Thoreau |
29 | ''Big thinking
precedes great achievement.'' - Wilferd Peterson |
30 | ''Don't
underestimate the power of a vision. McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc, pictured
his empire long before it existed, and he saw how to get there. He invented
the company motto - 'Quality, service, cleanliness and value' - and kept
repeating it to employees for the rest of his life.'' - Kenneth Labich |
31 | ''The future
belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.'' - John Scully |
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