A Goal Without An Action Plan Is

Moved By A Passion They Do Not Understand For A Goal They Seldom Reach, Men And Women Are Haunted By The Vision Of A Distant Possibility That Refuses To Be Extinguished.

Stressing The Practice Of Living Purposefully As Essential To Fully Realized Self-esteem Is Not Equivalent To Measuring An Individual's Worth By His Or Her External Achievements. We Admire Achievements-in Ourselves And Others-and It Is Natural And Appropriate For Us To Do So. But That Is Not The Same Thing As Saying That Our Achievements Are The Measure Or Grounds Of Our Self-esteem. The Root Of Our Self-esteem Is Not Our Achievements But Those Internally Generated Practices That, Among Other Things, Make It Possible For Us To Achieve.

If You Are An Adult, You Are Responsible For Your Life And Well-being. No One Owes You The Fulfillment Of Your Needs Or Wants; No One Is Here On Earth To Serve You. If You Respect The Principle Of Self-ownership, You Understand That No One Else Owns You And That You Do Not Own Anyone Else. Only On This Understanding Can There Be Peace On Earth And Good Will Among Human Beings.

A Depression Is A Large-scale Decline In Production And Trade...there Is Nothing In The Nature Of A Free-market Economy To Cause Such An Event.

Most Of Us Are Taught From An Early Age To Pay Far More Attention To Signals Coming From Other People Than From Within. We Are Encouraged To Ignore Our Own Needs And Wants And To Concentrate On Living Up To Others Expectations.