~ Goals Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]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

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[highlight-text]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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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[highlight-text]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

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[highlight-text]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

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

Indira Gandhi

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[highlight-text]Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Luigi Pirandello

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

Bette Davis

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[highlight-text]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.

Anna Pavlova

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[highlight-text]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

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[highlight-text]Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it; seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

Tyron Edwards

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[highlight-text]If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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[highlight-text]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.

Rebecca West

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[highlight-text]He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.

Horace Mann

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[highlight-text]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.

Andre Gide

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[highlight-text]Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.

Joyce Carol Oates