Goals Quotes - Page 5

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.

Leon Uris

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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.

In everything one must consider the end.

Jean de La Fontaine

There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.

Great minds have purposes others have wishes.

Washington Irving

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

C. H. Parkhurst

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.

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.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Michel de Montaigne

Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.

William P. Merrill

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.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Be a life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

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.

José Ortega y Gasset

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

Marcus Aurelius

A useless life is an early death.

Johann von Goethe

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."

Harmon Killebrew

Without a purpose nothing should be done.

Marcus Aurelius

To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.

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.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass children with bright eyes not being pushed around useful work that suits one's abilities plain tasty food and occasional satisfying nookie.

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

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

Robert Browning

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

La Rochefoucauld

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Plutarch

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Winston Churchill

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

St. Francis de Sales

This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!

Bible

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.

Daniel H. Burnham

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

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.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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.

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

Goethe

The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting to come out. You'll be able to access the part of you that people like to be around. The part of you that feels upbeat about things. That feels like you're moving toward your goals without frustration and anxiety. That feels ecstatic to be alive! The more I meditate, the more I have these moments.

Russell Simmons

Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.

DaShanne Stokes

It's impossible to hit a target that you can't see. You must visualize your goal, set a plan and work your plan. Don't make excuses. .. Just make time.

Randa Manning-Johnson

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

Define your life,Define your world,Define your passions,Define your goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Large bodies of goal achievement research encourage written goals for good reason. When we write down our goals, we transform what we imagine into reality.

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

Bangambiki Habyarimana

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