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The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.

The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.

We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.

It is only when life is sluggish within us that we speak: only at moments when reality lies far away, and we do not wish to be conscious of our brethren.

Some there are that have no silence, and that kill the silence around them, and these are the only creatures that pass through life unperceived.

Ambition is of all others the most contrary humour to solitude; glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

In our ordinary actions there is not one of a thousand that concerns ourselves.

Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?

Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself.

Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.

the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion

It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.

The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.

Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.

Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.

Whereas having many friends puts people apart and severs and disunites them, by transferring and shifting the tie of friendship too frequently, and does not admit of a mixture and welding of goodwill by the diffusing and compacting of intimacy.

As therefore the shoe is shaped by the foot, and not the foot by the shoe, so does the disposition make the life similar to itself.

In the next place, it is false that those that have little to do are easy in mind.

as the strings of the bow and lyre are alternately tightened and relaxed, so is it with the order of the world; in human affairs there is nothing pure and without alloy

Our heart ever changes its place till it finds love, and then it has its rest.

To accomplish anything excellent, the will must work for catholic and universal ends.

Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.

Though slowly and with pain, the objects of the affections change, as the objects of thought do.

Thus even love, which is the deification of persons, must become more impersonal every day.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.