316 Goals Quotes

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

You should know me well enough by now to know I don't ask for things I don't think I can get.

The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

It's not quite as important who you beat as that you end up on top.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

It took me years to figure out that you don't fall into a tub of butter, you jump for it.

The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish.

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.

I had three goals and all of them were met.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

'Wer das Wunschbare mit dem Machbaren verwechselt, wird scheitern.' ('Who mixes up the wishable and the doable will fail')

I'm not concerned with body building; I'm just trying to make people normal human beings.

'I hoped to sell 50,000 records. My main goals were to sing my heart out, to challenge myself vocally, to find beautiful music that has great stories and to express what I love about the musicality of different languages. And if 10 people bought it, I'd be thrilled that 10 people listened to it. And if it was 10 million, I'd be thrilled that 10 million people listened to it. This is just beyond any dream that I could have possibly had.'

'[...] you go to the National with your parents and think: 'I'd love to be here.' And then suddenly you are. It's a dream come true.'

Out in the garden There's half of a heaven, And we're only bluffing. We're not ones for busting through walls, But they've told us Unless we can prove That we're doing it, We can't have it all.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.

If we can put a man on the Moon, why can't we put a man on the moon?

Nam petere imperium quod inanus nec datur umquam, atque in eo semper durum sufferre laborem, hoc est adverso nixantem trudere monte saxa quod tamen e summo iam vertice rursum volvitur et plani raptim petit aequora campi.

In explaining things to people, I've come to terms with the fact that a lot of my goals are very Christian in the end. Because people no longer appreciate the taboos of sex, drugs, and rock & roll. I have to take them as far as they've ever been taken before, on a grand scale, in order for the world to realize we have to start over. It's very much like the mythology of the bible, the end of the world, and the antichrist and people are made to make a choice about their faith. I think certain elements of that are correct.

Whenever you cross swords with an enemy you must not think of cutting him either strongly or weakly; just think of cutting and killing him. Be intent solely on killing the enemy. Do not try to cut strongly and, of course, do not think of cutting weakly. You should only be concerned with killing the enemy.

You can have it all you just can't have it all at one time.

I took the leap, yes, but I didn't like the ledge where I landed - I fought the bear, I kissed the princess, but now I don't want to be king. Well, where in the fairy tales did it ever say Cinderella had to like being queen?

He doesn't care about making a good impression. He doesn't hurry to ingratiate himself with people. He takes his time sizing up a situation and then finds the least troublesome way to his goal.

Everything is impossible so just quit.

It's a wonderful league, the World Domination League. The aims, as published in the manifesto, are total domination of the world by 1958. That's what we're planning to do. We've had to revise it. We're hoping to bring a new manifesto out with a more realistic target.

I want to have my first child by 25. I want to have five kids.

I'm not looking to steal Beyonce's crown. I'm looking to get my own.

Education is my first priority.

Since I was a small child, one of my dreams has been to compete in motor vehicle races all over the world with a vehicle of my own making, and to win.

The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them...

My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my aspirations.

Endeavor to do well with everything you undertake.

Yeah runnin' down a dream that never would come to me. Workin' on a mystery, goin' wherever it leads. I'm runnin' down a dream.

Whatever it takes to fulfill his mission That is the way we must go But you've got to do it your own way Tear down the old, bring up the new.

'If you can win tonight, then maybe you can get a shot at the WWE Championship. And when you're done with that, maybe you can go for the big one. Peace out, my brothas!' (walks off; he was talking to Shawn Michaels, and John Cena was there as well)

This is the thing I'm going to be remembered for.

I always shoot for the sky, but sometimes I hit London.

It's a huge goal of mine. It was at the beginning of the year. It's still foremost in my game, but when it comes to the first tee, I try to throw it away and just forget about it and go about my business.

But my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incomplete episodes

Science, in the immediate, produces knowledge and, indirectly, means of action. It leads to methodical action if definite goals are set up in advance. For the function of setting up goals and passing statements of value transcends its domain. While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach. As regards religion, on the other hand, one is generally agreed that it deals with goals and evaluations and, in general, with the emotional foundation of human thinking and acting, as far as these are not predetermined by the inalterable hereditary disposition of the human species. Religion is concerned with man's attitude toward nature at large, with the establishing of ideals for the individual and communal life, and with mutual human relationship. These ideals religion attempts to attain by exerting an educational influence on tradition and through the development and promulgation of certain easily accessible thoughts and narratives (epics and myths) which are apt to influence evaluation and action along the lines of the accepted ideals.

I realized it wouldn't do [him] any good to have a bunch of puppets doing his will. What he wants is companions. Do you see? He wants us to become like him, to want the same things he wants. To work towards the same goals, freely and willingly, because we want to

My aim is not to corrupt the weak, but to exalt the strong

We all die in the end, so revenge we swore/I was all about my ends, fuck friends and foes

N.I.G.G.A stands for Never Ignorant about Getting Goals Accomplished or No Ignorance Got Goals Accomplished

It is not to be supposed that any one will attain to the full realization of what he purposes, even when those purposes do not involve united action with others; he will fall short; he will in some measure be overcome by contending or inert opposition. But something he will attain, if he continues to aim high. What, then, would I have? you ask. I would have men invest themselves with the dignity of an aim higher than the chase for wealth; choose a thing to do in life outside of the making of things, and keep it in mind, - not for a day, nor a year, but for a life-time. And then keep faith with themselves! Not be a light-o'-love, to-day professing this and to-morrow that, and easily reading oneself out of both whenever it becomes convenient; not advocating a thing to-day and to-morrow kissing its enemies' sleeve, with that weak, coward cry in the mouth, 'Circumstances make me.' Take a good look into yourself, and if you love Things and the power and the plenitude of Things better than you love your own dignity, human dignity, Oh, say so, say so! Say it to yourself, and abide by it. But do not blow hot and cold in one breath. Do not try to be a social reformer and a respected possessor of Things at the same time. Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it.

Why not the best?

It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

'Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.'

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.

I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.

'I'd rather have a Gold Glove (Award) than a Silver Slugger (Award). Defense is so much more of a team game, and one of my goals this year was to make fewer than 25 errors.'

'You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.'

'I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.'

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfilment.

But always what we have taken in hand, the same we have achieved. (ch. 17)

I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes, it takes.

'Take what you can from your dreams, make them as real as anything.'

In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.

'Think Big and Live Large!'

Her friends have become who they've become by default. Their dreams are forgotten, or were never formulated to begin with.

'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'