To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Interpretation
Success requires active effort and determination rather than passivity.
This quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of taking decisive action to achieve one's goals. Instead of waiting or remaining stagnant, one must actively engage in the process of striving towards a destination, symbolized by 'sailing' towards a port. It serves as a reminder that reaching our objectives is often a dynamic journey requiring focus and initiative.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to pursue their dreams.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
I'm always focussed on the actual work, and I think that's a much more succinct way to describe what you care about than any speech I could ever make.
Thought is the seed of action.
Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.
I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game - if I put everything into the fight business - then I would eventually run the fight business.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.
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