A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

Silence is more eloquent than words

Silence is more eloquent than words

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to...

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be noblest

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

The purpose of man is in action, not thought.

The purpose of man is in action, not thought.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age...

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what...

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what...

All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true...

All men seek one goal : success or happiness. The only way to achieve true...