"You might have done it, you've got the brains, and the sense, but you ain't got the ambition.

You keep feeling for a thousand things instead of keeping your grip on one.

The man that succeeds fastens hard on what he wants to do--the one big thing, and he does it, thinking of naught else." "Well, that's good preaching," remarked Carnac coolly.

"But it doesn't mean that a man should stick to one thing, if he finds out he's been wrong about it?
We all make mistakes.

Perhaps some day I'll wish I'd gone with you." Grimness came into the old man's face.