Goals Quotes - Page 2

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.

We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible that peace is indivisible that economic prosperity is indivisible.

I always ask the question "Is this what I want in my life?"

Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!

He who demands little gets it.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection we have forfeited our manhood.

Stephen McKenna

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina Augusta

I was born to be a remarkable woman it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

Marie Bashkirtseff

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Jordaon

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

Madonna

Your world is as big as you make it.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in aim at earth and you get neither.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.

Barbara Mikulski

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

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.

Lord Chesterfield

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

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.

Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.

Helen Gurley Brown

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore though they should fall immediately they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Josephine Baker

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.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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.

Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

Jacqueline Cochran

The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson

My motto: sans limites.

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.

Wilma Pearl Mankiller

[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.

Maria Goeppert Mayer

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.

Katherine Anne Porter

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.

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.

Margaret Thatcher

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

G.K. Chesterton

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

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.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?

J. C. F. von Schiller

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them but I can't relax them.

Mary Decker Slaney

I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

Louisa May Alcott

We're half the people we should be half the Congress.

Jeannette Rankin

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

Martina Navratilova

It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.

Sheila Ballantyne

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Charlotte Bunch

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.

J. Hawes

When one paints an ideal one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Ellen Key

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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.

Florence Griffith Joyner

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