Goals Quotes

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.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

Frank Swinnerton

I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.

Plautus

A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

William M. Punshion

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Benjamin Franklin

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

General George S. Patton

The object of war is to survive it.

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

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.

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.

Joyce Carol Oates

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

Life's objective is life itself.

Johann von Goethe

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.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

Dante Alighieri

Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.

Pamela Vaull Starr

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Marcus Aurelius

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Happy the man who knows his duties!

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

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.

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.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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.

Henry David Thoreau

It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.

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.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.

Growth is not concerned with itself.

Meridel Le Sueur

The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.

Madonna

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

Kathleen Norris

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

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.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.

Corrie ten Boom

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.

Marlene Dietrich

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.

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.

On the human chessboard all moves are possible.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Les Brown

We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

José Ortega y Gasset

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.

Louisa May Alcott

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Marcus Aurelius

Not failure but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

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.

Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

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.

Kathleen Norris

You have to erect a fence and say "Okay scale this."

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

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.

Ethel Barrymore

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.

Henry J. Golding

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

John Mason Brown

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