Goals Quotes - Page 4

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Joseph Campbell

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

Simone de Beauvoir

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.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Helen Gurley Brown

Normal is not something to aspire to it's something to get away from.

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

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.

Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!

It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.

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.

William Jennings Bryan

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

Kenneth Hildebrand

One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

Helen Merrell Lynd

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

If you don't know where you are going how can you expect to get there?

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt for which we strive and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

George Matthew Adams

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.

Maurice Switzer

Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.

Anonymous

The purpose of life is life.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

So long as I believe I have to do certain things I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.

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.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

Leonardo da Vinci

Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

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.

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

Michel de Montaigne

Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

What most counts is not to live but to live aright.

Socrates

Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel de Montaigne

Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

C. H. Parkhurst

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Mae West

Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!

Anonymous

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

Anonymous

To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.

Stephen McKenna

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.

Charles C. Noble

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

David Starr Jordan

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.

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.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

G.K. Chesterton

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

Charles C. Noble

If you cry "Forward " you must make plain in what direction to go.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

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