Goals Quotes - Page 3

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.

Eva Le Gallienne

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.

William M. Punshion

If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.

Spanish Proverb

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.

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.

T. DeWitt Talmage

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

Japanese Proverb

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

Portuguese Proverb

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

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.

Let us live while we are alive!

Johann von Goethe

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

Cher

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

Aristotle

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.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself everything else is a mockery.

The true object of human life is play.

G.K. Chesterton

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.

Voltaire

A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.

Rhodesian proverb

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.

Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.

Mary Parker Follett

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

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.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann von Goethe

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

Chinese Proverb

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

Nathaniel Emmons

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.

William J. Lock

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Italian proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

Chinese Proverb

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

Spanish Proverb

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.

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. -Samuel Johnson No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.

Bible

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.

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.

Lord Chesterfield

Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.

Colonel Michael Friedman

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.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

Christine Lavin

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

Epictetus

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

Dorothy L. Sayers

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

Rosie O'Donnell

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.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Phillips Brooks

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.

Get out of the blocks run your race stay relaxed. If you run your race you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

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.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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