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.
If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
I picked up an issue of 'Cosmopolitan' the other day that had tips for job interviews, because I was like, "I need to get better at interviews." The article was basically about how to get someone not to hate you in 20 minutes. Every single thing they told you not to do, I was like, "I do that every day."
Your attitude determines your actions, and your actions determine your accomplishment.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.
'I can't' are two words that have never been in my vocabulary. I believe in me more than anything in this world.
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