You return and again take the proper course, guided by what?—By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for…
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Goals
To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Excellence
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Cheating, Integrity
A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Goals
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Desires, Desire
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Imagination
You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.
—John D. MacDonald
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Friendship
Your mind, which is yourself, can be likened to a house. The first necessary move then, is to rid that house of all but furnishings essential to success.
—John D. MacDonald
Topics: Compromise
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