“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
"The Burning Babe", line 9; pp. 98-9.
“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
John of St. Samson (1571–1636)
From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.
“When the fires were raging these journalists were pouring fuel on those fires.”
Narendra Modi (1950) Prime Minister of India
2014, "Narendra Modi on the Role of NDTV during the 2002 Riots", 2014
Context: What is worse, when I got the matter enquired into by the local police, we found out that it was a small, insignificant structure under a tree which had been damaged a little bit by some crazy individual. But NDTV presented it as an attack on a Hanuman mandir. When the fires were raging these journalists were pouring fuel on those fires.
“Today, I saw a spark of decency. Let's blow on that spark and give it fuel.”
Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Homecoming saga, Earthborn (1995)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–1881) Russian author
As quoted in Kierkegaard, the Melancholy Dane (1950) by Harold Victor Martin.
Variant translation:
I believe in Christ and confess him not like some child; my hosanna has passed through an enormous furnace of doubt.
Last Notebook (1880–1881), Literaturnoe nasledstvo, 83: 696; as quoted in Kenneth Lantz, The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia (2004), p. 21, hdn ISBN 0-313-30384-3
Walter Savage Landor Imaginary Conversations
"Cromwell and Noble".
Imaginary Conversations (1824-1829)
Thomas Watson (1616–1686) English nonconformist preacher and author
"Christ The Redeemer" in A Body of Divinity http://www.fivesolas.com/watson/redeemer.htm (1692).