Don't Fritter Away Your Life

It is necessary to prepare, to plan, so that we don't fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. The best definition of success I have ever found goes something like this: Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never crossing the goal line.

Thomas S. Monson, "Three Gates Only You Can Open," New Era, Aug. 2008, 2, 4