Jack Kerouac Quotes

Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a difference?

The goal has its importance. But the doing is what is truly fulfilling. Every enthusiastic person has a goal that may be important, but the doing is intensely fulfilling, and it is the essence of enthusiasm.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?

you have to do more than just kill time or time will quickly kill you.

Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit, and do-learn, commit, and do-and learn, commit, and do again.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.

What does it matter how much we do if what we're doing isn't what matters most?

Unless you move, the place where you are is the place where you will always be.

Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

Man works for an object. Remove that object and you reduce him into inaction.

When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.

Things happen when people are not where they belong, and the world moves forward and back by that principle.

Whatever your goal in life, unless you develop a great urgency, what could be near will be far away.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.

Purpose directs energy, and purpose makes energy.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

So, that is my final lesson from the universe - you just do what you need to do, and stay on track.