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- What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
- Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- T. T. Munger
- The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
- Joseph Joubert
- When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
- Douglas Lurtan
- In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
- Alfred A. Montapert
- Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
- Alexander Clark
- Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
- Stephen A. Brennan
- It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
- Plant a kernel of wheat and you reap a pint; plant a pint and you reap a bushel. Always the law works to give you back more than you give.
- Anthony Norvell
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