Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.
Interpretation
Focus on your goals and stay committed to achieving them.
This quote emphasizes the importance of clarity in your ambitions and the need for unwavering focus in pursuing them. By firmly establishing what you want to achieve and committing to that path without distraction, you increase your chances of successfully reaching your goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sing.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
I can look back at my own life and see where a few words of praise have sharply changed my entire future. Can't you say the same thing about your life?
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.
Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.
It is a wonderful tribute to the game or to the dottiness of the people who play it that for some people somewhere there is no such thing as an insurmountable obstacle, an unplayable course, the wrong time of the day or year.
If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?
That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
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