Joseph Campbell on motivation and goals

Find a place where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I think it’s important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’

Never give in⁠—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23