Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within.
In everything one must consider the end.
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
Having a goal is a state of happiness.
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want.
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.