First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere.
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day.
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
