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.
Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker. The unseen help of the guardian gods of heaven and earth assure fulfillment.
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.
When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.
I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.
There is no heavier burden than an unfulfilled potential.
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