~ Goals Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Julius Bate

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Golda Meir

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The full-grown modern human being ... 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.

R. Briffault

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Napoleon Hill

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

David Sarnoff

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Leo C. Rosten

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

B. C. Forbes