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Goals QuotesFamous Goals quotes by popular authors such as Marcus Aurelius, Michel de Montaigne, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Bernard Shaw, Henry David Thoreau and others.
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[highlight-text]My motto: sans limites.
Isadora Duncan
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[highlight-text]The only way round is through.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]He who demands little gets it.
Ellen Glasgow
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[highlight-text]Let us live while we are alive!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Diana Scharf Hunt
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[highlight-text]The brain is wider than the sky.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Life's objective is life itself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]Aim at nothing and you'll succeed.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
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[highlight-text]The object of war is to survive it.
John Irving
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[highlight-text]Your world is as big as you make it.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
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[highlight-text]Growth is not concerned with itself.
Meridel Le Sueur
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[highlight-text]Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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[highlight-text]A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]Having a goal is a state of happiness.
E. J. Bartek
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[highlight-text]A bull does not enjoy fame in two herds.
Rhodesian Proverb
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[highlight-text]In everything one must consider the end.
Jean de la Fontaine
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[highlight-text]Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
Phillips Brooks
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[highlight-text]Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Will Durant
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[highlight-text]He turns not back who is bound to a star.
Leonardo da Vinci
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[highlight-text]Without a purpose nothing should be done.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
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[highlight-text]The main obligation is to amuse yourself.
S. J. Perelman
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[highlight-text]He who begins many things finishes but few.
Italian Proverb
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[highlight-text]Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text]He who serves two masters has to lie to one.
Portuguese Proverb
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[highlight-text]All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
Aristotle
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[highlight-text]Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Washington Irving
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as expecting too much.
Susan Cheever
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[highlight-text]I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
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[highlight-text]Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
Kenneth Hildebrand
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[highlight-text]Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
Edward Young
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[highlight-text]On the human chessboard all moves are possible.
Miriam Schiff
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[highlight-text]Happiness is not the end of life; character is.
Henry Ward Beecher
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[highlight-text]Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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[highlight-text]The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]If you run after two hares you will catch neither.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]What most counts is not to live but to live aright.
Socrates
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[highlight-text]I think the key is for women not to set any limits.
Martina Navratilova
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[highlight-text]The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.
Jack London
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[highlight-text]The most important thing about goals is having one.
Geoffrey F. Abert
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[highlight-text]If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.
Spanish Proverb
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[highlight-text]I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.
Barbara Jordaon
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[highlight-text]One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]You have to erect a fence and say 'Okay scale this.'
Linda Ronstadt
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[highlight-text]Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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[highlight-text]He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
Andre Maurois
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[highlight-text]We're half the people we should be half the Congress.
Jeannette Rankin
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[highlight-text]A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
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[highlight-text]Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Scott Reed
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[highlight-text]He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.
Japanese Proverb
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[highlight-text]Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
Anita DeFrantz
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[highlight-text]Tell them that as soon as I can walk I'm going to fly!
Bessie Coleman
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[highlight-text]Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.
Cher
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[highlight-text]It's expectation that differentiates you from the dead.
Sheila Ballantyne
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[highlight-text]Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.
Frank Gaines
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[highlight-text]Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
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[highlight-text]You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
Billy Wilder
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[highlight-text]The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]I always ask the question 'Is this what I want in my life?'
Kathy Ireland
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[highlight-text]Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
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[highlight-text]The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.
Erich Kastner
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[highlight-text]A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide
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[highlight-text]I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Dante Alighieri
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[highlight-text]A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash
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[highlight-text]No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Not only must we be good but we must also be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.
Maude Adams
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[highlight-text]Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.
Colonel Michael Friedman
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[highlight-text]To have no set purpose in one's life is the harlotry of the will.
Stephen McKenna
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[highlight-text]A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.
David Sarnoff
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[highlight-text]You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.
Helen Gurley Brown
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[highlight-text]I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Rita Mae Brown
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[highlight-text]If you cry 'Forward ' you must make plain in what direction to go.
Anton Chekhov
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[highlight-text]Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.
Georg W. F. Hegel
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[highlight-text]Pleasure is the object duty and the goal of all rational creatures.
Voltaire
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[highlight-text]Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time.
J. C. F. von Schiller
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[highlight-text]Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
Joseph Campbell
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[highlight-text]Normal is not something to aspire to it's something to get away from.
Jodie Foster
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[highlight-text]All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.
Corrie ten Boom
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[highlight-text]The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Starr Jordan
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[highlight-text]If you don't know where you are going how can you expect to get there?
Basil S. Walsh
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[highlight-text]You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.
Simone de Beauvoir
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[highlight-text]I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
Billie Holiday
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[highlight-text]When one paints an ideal one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key
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[highlight-text]Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
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[highlight-text]The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
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[highlight-text]Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
Norman Douglas
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[highlight-text]The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
John Mason Brown
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[highlight-text]Without duty life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Joseph Joubert
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[highlight-text]Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman
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[highlight-text]The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.
Carl Sandburg
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[highlight-text]Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.
L. Ron Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Be a life long or short its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
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[highlight-text]You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want.
Maurice Switzer
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[highlight-text]It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.
Bonnie Blair
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[highlight-text]Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.
Harry Kemp
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[highlight-text]Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
Don Herold
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[highlight-text]It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them.
Joanna Field
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[highlight-text]The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
William P. Merrill
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[highlight-text]There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.
Christopher Morley
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[highlight-text]Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold
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[highlight-text]It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.
Miles Franklin
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[highlight-text]Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg
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[highlight-text]Leader and followers are both following the invisible leader-the common purpose.
Mary Parker Follett
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[highlight-text]Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.
Lucy Stone
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[highlight-text]Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.
James Reston
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[highlight-text]The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather
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[highlight-text]To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!
Henrik Ibsen
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[highlight-text]Laboring toward distant aims sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
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[highlight-text]Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman
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[highlight-text]Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[highlight-text]No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
Bonnie Blair
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[highlight-text]I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.
Rosie O'Donnell
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[highlight-text]The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Vauvenargues
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[highlight-text]I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.
Rachel Carson
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[highlight-text]There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
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[highlight-text]As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
Phillips Brooks
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[highlight-text]I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.
Madonna
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[highlight-text]Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Charles C. Noble
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[highlight-text]To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Baruch Spinoza
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[highlight-text]You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures.
Charles C. Noble
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[highlight-text]Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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[highlight-text]We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.
Marlene Dietrich
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[highlight-text]We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
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[highlight-text]Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr
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[highlight-text]Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
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[highlight-text]Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.
Frances Marion
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[highlight-text]I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them but I can't relax them.
Mary Decker Slaney
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[highlight-text]I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.
Jacqueline Cochran
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[highlight-text]He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Louis L'Amour
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[highlight-text]I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Lock
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[highlight-text]The American people can have anything they want; the trouble is they don't know what they want.
Eugene V. Debs
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[highlight-text]Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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[highlight-text]I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.
James Conrad
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[highlight-text]Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection we have forfeited our manhood.
Stephen McKenna
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[highlight-text]You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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[highlight-text]I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.
Louisa May Alcott
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[highlight-text]I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.
Barbara Mikulski
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[highlight-text]Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
Josephine Baker
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[highlight-text]It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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[highlight-text]It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Christina Augusta
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[highlight-text]Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.
Propertius
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[highlight-text]The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.
Frank Swinnerton
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[highlight-text]There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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[highlight-text]So long as I believe I have to do certain things I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.
Corazan Aquino
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[highlight-text]When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.
Virginia Woolf
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[highlight-text]The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin Mays
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[highlight-text]To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
James Baillie
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[highlight-text]True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett
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[highlight-text]There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
Doris Lessing
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[highlight-text]When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
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[highlight-text]The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
Charlotte Bunch
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[highlight-text]Get out of the blocks run your race stay relaxed. If you run your race you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.
Carol Lewis
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[highlight-text]People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.
Marcel Proust
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[highlight-text]Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.
Helen Gurley Brown
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[highlight-text]I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.
Marie Bashkirtseff
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[highlight-text]Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
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[highlight-text]Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
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[highlight-text]One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water one pops up while you try to hold down the other.
Chinese Proverb
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[highlight-text][My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.
Maria Goeppert Mayer
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[highlight-text]Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.
William H. Sheldon
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[highlight-text]People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
Florence Griffith Joyner
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Where no plan is laid where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
W. Clement Stone
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[highlight-text]The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.
Hugh Black
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to be a winning ball club.
Red Auerbach
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[highlight-text]You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.
Marcia Wieder
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[highlight-text]The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
Madonna
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[highlight-text]A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
William M. Punshion
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[highlight-text]Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.
Barbara Bush
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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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[highlight-text]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.
Lillian Carter
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[highlight-text]I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
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[highlight-text]Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.
J. Hawes
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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
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[highlight-text]A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller
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[highlight-text]There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]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.
Judith Guest
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Nancy Ditz
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[highlight-text]People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.
Margaret Thatcher
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[highlight-text]The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
Ruth Benedict
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Anna Jameson
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[highlight-text]I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
Pearl S. Buck
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[highlight-text]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.
R. Briffault
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[highlight-text]What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.
Henry J. Golding
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[highlight-text]Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
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[highlight-text]We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Gladys Taber
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[highlight-text]I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn
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[highlight-text]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.
Minot Simons
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[highlight-text]Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
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[highlight-text]From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]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.
Annie Dillard
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[highlight-text]If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
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[highlight-text]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.
C. A. Dykstra
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[highlight-text]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.
Don Marquis
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[highlight-text]True happiness we are told consists in getting out of one's self but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
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[highlight-text]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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[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
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[highlight-text]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.
Owen Meredith
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[highlight-text]You must learn day by day year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love the more you are interested in the more you enjoy the more you are indignant about the more you have left when anything happens.
Ethel Barrymore
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[highlight-text]The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life discerns his object and toward that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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[highlight-text]Aim at perfection in everything though in most things it is unattainable. However they who aim at it and persevere will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield
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[highlight-text]The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense to be emotionally sincere to be able to put the whole of oneself into one's feelings one's work one's beliefs.
Karen Horney
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[highlight-text]Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.
Kathleen Norris
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty 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
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[highlight-text]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.
George Eliot
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things always have been done. ... I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past.
Clara Barton
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[highlight-text]What else are we gonna live by if not dreams? We need to believe in something. What would really drive us crazy is to believe this reality we run into every day is all there is. If I don't believe that there's a happy ending out there-that will-you-marry-me in the sky-I can't keep working today.
Jill Robinson
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[highlight-text]We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
Katherine Mansfield
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[highlight-text]The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure but low aim is a sin.
Benjamin Mays