Goals Quotes
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead! (Quote by - Fannie Flagg)
To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting! (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Quote by - Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have. (Quote by - Charles C. Noble)
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows. (Quote by - John Powell)
If you don't know where you are going, how can you expect to get there? (Quote by - Basil S. Walsh)
You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan, where do you want to put your efforts. I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value. (Quote by - Dr. Laura Schlessinger)
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. (Quote by - Fitzhugh Dodson)
I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club. (Quote by - Red Auerbach)
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. (Quote by - Kenneth Hildebrand)
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest. (Quote by - Dante Alighieri)
As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
One may miss the mark by aiming too high, as too low. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it. (Quote by - Don Herold)
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome. (Quote by - Golda Meir)
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." (Quote by - Harmon Killebrew)
What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today. (Quote by - Jill Robinson)
It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round. (Quote by - Julie Andrews)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Having a goal is a state of happiness. (Quote by - E. J. Bartek)
I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
If you would be Pope, you must think of nothing else. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. (Quote by - Alan Paton)
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person. (Quote by - Barbara Jordaon)
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasgow)
Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist? (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
He turns not back who is bound to a star. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. (Quote by - Washington Irving)
Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination. (Quote by - Karl von Clausewitz)
A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end, although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock, and assumes ten different positions in a day. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Without duty, life is soft and boneless. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim, is a sin. (Quote by - Benjamin Mays)
Happiness is the natural flower of duty. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life. (Quote by - James Baillie)
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals. (Quote by - Paul Meyer)
I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them, but I can't relax them. (Quote by - Mary Decker Slaney)
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. (Quote by - Bonnie Blair)
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from. (Quote by - Jodie Foster)
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as they tie their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little. (Quote by - George Eliot)
I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die. (Quote by - Marie Bashkirtseff)
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life, and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success. (Quote by - William M. Punshion)
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. (Quote by - Miles Franklin)
What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment, but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life. (Quote by - Henry J. Golding)
He who wants to do everything will never do anything. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
We're half the people, we should be half the Congress. (Quote by - Jeannette Rankin)
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds. (Quote by - Rhodesian proverb)
I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough, and the old applause. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. (Quote by - George Washington)
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
All men seek one goal: success or happiness. (Quote by - Aristotle)
A useless life is an early death. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Quote by - Joanna Field)
Who begins too much accomplishes little. (Quote by - German proverb)
Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone. (Quote by - Josephine Baker)
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving. (Quote by - Florence Scovel Shinn)
A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret. (Quote by - Leon Uris)
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. (Quote by - Baruch Spinoza)
The proper function of man is to live-not to exist. (Quote by - Jack London)
My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests. (Quote by - Maria Goeppert Mayer)
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out, and to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand. (Quote by - Henry James)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. (Quote by - John Mason Brown)
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent. (Quote by - Antoinette Brown Blackwell)
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see. (Quote by - Wilma Pearl Mankiller)
Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. (Quote by - Kathleen Norris)
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream. (Quote by - Harry Kemp)
You have to erect a fence and say, "Okay, scale this." (Quote by - Linda Ronstadt)
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery. (Quote by - Norman Douglas)
Not failure, but low aim, is crime. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Goals are dreams with deadlines. (Quote by - Diana Scharf Hunt)
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. (Quote by - Audrey Hepburn)
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal. (Quote by - Anna Pavlova)
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. (Quote by - Marsha Sinetar)
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
Too low they build, who build beneath the stars. (Quote by - Edward Young)
The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets. (Quote by - Owen Meredith)
Great is the road I climb, but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering. (Quote by - Propertius)
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do. (Quote by - Simone de Beauvoir)
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. (Quote by - Ellen Key)
There are people who want to be everywhere at once, and they get nowhere. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
No pleasure philosophy, no sensuality, no place nor power, no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose. (Quote by - Minot Simons)
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world. (Quote by - Madonna)
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Growth is not concerned with itself. (Quote by - Meridel Le Sueur)
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
I always ask the question, "Is this what I want in my life?" (Quote by - Kathy Ireland)
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. (Quote by - William James)
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. (Quote by - Bible)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will. (Quote by - Judith Guest)
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been. (Quote by - Billie Holiday)
Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live. (Quote by - William P. Merrill)
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. (Quote by - Anita DeFrantz)
The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand. (Quote by - Luigi Pirandello)
The true object of human life is play. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self. (Quote by - Hugh Black)
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. (Quote by - Mae West)
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it. (Quote by - Kathleen Norris)
Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. (Quote by - Frank Gaines)
In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fall immediately, they had better aim at something high. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice. (Quote by - George Matthew Adams)
Happy the man who knows his duties! (Quote by - Christian Furchtegott Gellert)
To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will. (Quote by - Stephen McKenna)
He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea, one great overmastering purpose, overshadowing all his aims, and guiding and controlling his entire life. (Quote by - Julius Bate)
For me it's the challenge-the challenge to try to beat myself or do better than I did in the past. I try to keep in mind not what I have accomplished but what I have to try to accomplish in the future. (Quote by - Jackie Joyner-Kersee)
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal. (Quote by - William J. Lock)
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill. (Quote by - Anna Jameson)
That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise, one for which they may pledge their lives, their fortunes and their honor. (Quote by - C. A. Dykstra)
You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. (Quote by - Ethel Barrymore)
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. (Quote by - Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus. (Quote by - Carol Lewis)
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. (Quote by - Robert Byrne)
The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all. (Quote by - Madonna)
It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead. (Quote by - Sheila Ballantyne)
The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued. (Quote by - R. Briffault)
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I think the key is for women not to set any limits. (Quote by - Martina Navratilova)
The secret of success is constancy to purpose. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure as a test of value. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. (Quote by - Maude Adams)
Never try to catch two frogs with one hand. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key, and puts us at our best. (Quote by - C. H. Parkhurst)
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation. (Quote by - William H. Sheldon)
Someday, someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well. (Quote by - Barbara Bush)
Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal. (Quote by - L. Ron Hubbard)
There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time. (Quote by - J. C. F. von Schiller)
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself. (Quote by - Wilhelm von Humboldt)
From his cradle to the grave, a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. (Quote by - Maurice Switzer)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. (Quote by - George Santayana)
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety. (Quote by - Gladys Taber)
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. (Quote by - Lillian Carter)
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life. (Quote by - Greg Anderson)
The greyhound that starts many hares kills none. (Quote by - Spanish proverb)
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. (Quote by - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything. (Quote by - Scott Reed)
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. (Quote by - E. L. Konigsburg)
I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do. (Quote by - Rosie O'Donnell)
Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp. (Quote by - Helen Gurley Brown)
If you run after two hares, you will catch neither. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts. (Quote by - Christine Lavin)
The man who fails because he aims astray, or because he does not aim at all, is to be found everywhere. (Quote by - Frank Swinnerton)
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Without a purpose, nothing should be done. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
What most counts is not to live, but to live aright. (Quote by - Socrates)
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task. (Quote by - Field Marshal Erwin Rommel)
Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity. (Quote by - Paul Goodman)
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. (Quote by - John Morley)
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals. (Quote by - Lou Holtz)
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. (Quote by - Rensis Likert)
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done. (Quote by - Rachel Carson)
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes. (Quote by - Helen Merrell Lynd)
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
In everything one must consider the end. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
The soul that has no established aim loses itself. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. (Quote by - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps)
If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. (Quote by - Dan Dierdorf)
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties. (Quote by - Katherine Mansfield)
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object. (Quote by - George Hegel)
He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued. (Quote by - R. Briffault)
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. (Quote by - Denis Watley)
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. (Quote by - Pamela Vaull Starr)
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits. (Quote by - Nathaniel Emmons)
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time. (Quote by - Cher)
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. (Quote by - David Starr Jordan)
Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end. (Quote by - Ernestine Schumann-Heink)
One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water, one pops up while you try to hold down the other. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. (Quote by - Bette Davis)
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good. (Quote by - Ruth Benedict)
If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go. (Quote by - Anton Chekhov)
Our victory is sure to come, and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle. (Quote by - Lucy Stone)
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre. (Quote by - David Sarnoff)
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
I truly believe that before I retire from public office, I'll be voting for a woman for president. (Quote by - Barbara Mikulski)
I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more. (Quote by - Louisa May Alcott)
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it. (Quote by - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow, as the shadow comes with the sunshine. (Quote by - Tyron Edwards)
We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
On the human chessboard, all moves are possible. (Quote by - Miriam Schiff)
There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all. (Quote by - Antoinette Brown Blackwell)
Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly! (Quote by - Bessie Coleman)
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different, and yet the same. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you get neither. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. (Quote by - Edmund Hillary)
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale. (Quote by - Charlotte Bunch)
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit. (Quote by - Frances Marion)
Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? (Quote by - Robert Browning)
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best. (Quote by - Kurt Thomas)
The only people who attain power are those who crave for it. (Quote by - Erich Kastner)
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars. (Quote by - Les Brown)
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. (Quote by - Kathy Seligman)
He who serves two masters has to lie to one. (Quote by - Portuguese proverb)
What does so-called success or failure matter if only you have succeeded in doing the thing you set out to do. The doing is all that really counts. (Quote by - Eva Le Gallienne)
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go. (Quote by - Louis L'Amour)
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. (Quote by - David Starr Jordan)
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Never mind your happiness; do your duty. (Quote by - Will Durant)
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other. (Quote by - Japanese proverb)
The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is, they don't know what they want. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. (Quote by - Colonel Michael Friedman)
People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one. (Quote by - Florence Griffith Joyner)
I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars. (Quote by - Jacqueline Cochran)
The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings, one's work, one's beliefs. (Quote by - Karen Horney)
A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. (Quote by - Larry Bird)
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
He who begins many things finishes but few. (Quote by - Italian proverb)
Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood. (Quote by - Stephen McKenna)
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone. (Quote by - Donny Osmond)
It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life. (Quote by - Christina Augusta)
You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power. (Quote by - Helen Gurley Brown)
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. (Quote by - Corrie ten Boom)
If we could only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days. (Quote by - Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
Your world is as big as you make it. (Quote by - Georgia Douglas Johnson)
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. (Quote by - Marcus Annaeus Seneca)
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
Only when men are connected to large, universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity. (Quote by - Joyce Carol Oates)
You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want. (Quote by - Marcia Wieder)
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his objective in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. (Quote by - James Conrad)
Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. (Quote by - Katherine Anne Porter)
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. (Quote by - Vauvenargues)
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Nations, like individuals, have to limit their objectives or take the consequences. (Quote by - James Reston)
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain. (Quote by - Plautus)
You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there, and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward. (Quote by - Nancy Ditz)
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. (Quote by - Stephen A. Brennan)
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
Happiness is not the end of life; character is. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I care not what your education is, elaborate or nothing, what your mental calibre is, great or small, that man who concentrates all his energies of body, mind and soul in one direction is a tremendous man. (Quote by - T. DeWitt Talmage)
To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose. (Quote by - Mary Parker Follett)
There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision, the determination, and the courage to reach it. (Quote by - Mary McLeod Bethune)
Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. (Quote by - Thomas Eakins)
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk. (Quote by - Rosalynn Smith Carter)
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)
There is no such thing as expecting too much. (Quote by - Susan Cheever)
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. (Quote by - Joseph Campbell)
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things. (Quote by - William J. Locke)
True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself. (Quote by - J. Hawes)
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. (Quote by - Charles C. Noble)
A determinate purpose of life, and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages, are indispensable conditions of success. (Quote by - William M. Punshion)
So long as I believe I have to do certain things, I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life. (Quote by - Corazan Aquino)
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do. (Quote by - Epictetus)
It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly. (Quote by - Babe Didrikson Zaharias)
It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie. (Quote by - Bonnie Blair)
I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all. (Quote by - Leo C. Rosten)
