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- Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.
- Author Unknown
- To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
- Alfred A. Montapert
- I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close.
- Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
- Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
- Robert Collier
- Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
- Chazal
- I have heard it said that the first ingredient of success - the earliest spark in the dreaming youth - is this: dream a great dream.
- John Alan Appleman
- The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.
- Willmott
- Knowledge and personality make doubt possible, but knowledge is also the cure of doubt; and when we get a full and adequate sense of personality we are lifted into a region where doubt is almost impossible, for no man can know himself as he is, and all fullness of his nature, without also knowing God.
- T. T. Munger
- Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter the temple of wisdom. When we are in doubt and puzzle out the truth by our own exertions, we have gained something that will stay by us and will serve us again. But if to avoid the trouble of the search we avail ourselves of the superior information of a friend, such knowledge will not remain with us; we have not bought, but borrowed it.
- C. C. Colton
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