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If you aim at nothing, you become plagued by everything.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 184
You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you.
Jordan Petersonborn 1962Beyond Order (2021), p. 65
“Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,”
The shade replied,⁠—
“If you seek for Eldorado!”
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Eldorado (1849)In context
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849Eldorado (1849)In context
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)
- Work
We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Ronald Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address (1985)
- Freedom
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Christopher Reeve1952–2004Speech at the Democratic National Convention (26 August 1996)
- Hope
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers1879–1935
We don’t want to tell our dreams. We want to show them.
Cristiano Ronaldoborn 1985Twitter post (8 February 2012)
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately — but we still shall strive.
Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945Fourth inaugural address (1945)