The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going. There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps. I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle. I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. It is only the first step that is difficult. Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! ~Albert Einstein, c.1903, quoted by Martin André Rosanoff in "Edison in His Laboratory," Harper's Magazine, September 1932
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~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963Īs a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility. Garbage clutters the house that has no dream. ~Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ~Unattributed saying c. 1881 that likely evolved from Adelaide Anne Procter's poem containing the line "We always may be what we might have been" sometimes also quoted as "It is never too late to be who you might have been" and mistakenly attributed to George Eliot see /4/ never-too-late It is never too late to be what you might have been. God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. Power, in The Sign, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, 1922 The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, "On Medical Education," speech, 1870 I trust that you will all regard these successes as simply reminders that your next business is, having enjoyed the success of the day, no longer to look at that success, but to look forward to the next difficulty that is to be conquered. Still, I should like to remind you at the end of it all, that success on an occasion of this kind, valuable and important as it is, is in reality only putting the foot upon one rung of the ladder which leads upwards and that the rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. Have I made of life a treadmill, forever stepping but never getting on? Have I made of it a wheel flying round and round, but unbelted and without end or aim? ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912 ~Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual, 1988 Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. Roman SayingĪnd lastly, a deadline is negative inspiration. The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination it is essentially a part of it. and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go. ~Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1995Ī goal is a dream with a deadline. Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Samuel Johnson, as quoted by James Boswell it was a most mortifying reflection for any man to consider what he had done, compared with what he might have done. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière, 1986 That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible.
Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?" ~Robert Brault, Goal Quotes & Sayings (Motivation, Goals, Deadlines, Ambition, Focus, etc) The Quote Garden ™
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