""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Herman Melville
Adversity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"What a wonderful time to be young! You have knowledge of many more things than we needed to have. It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours — better in many ways! I have faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it!"
- President Boyd K. Packer
Ambition
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals."
- David Ogilvy
Ambition
"No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed."
- Billie Jean King
Ambition
"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
- Michael Jordan
Ambition