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.

'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.'

War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be the best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it soon or late. What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea seeking river in its course, Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another, This conception is a potent menace to social regeneration. All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim. The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.

I always wanted a beautiful loving wife and she always wanted to be a citizen.

Who wants to go beyond the Bojador / Must go beyond pain.

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going'.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Keueisy vun dunn diwyrnawd; keueisy dwy, handid mwy eu molawd; keueisy deir a pheddir a phawd; keueisy bymp o rei gwymp eu gwyngnawd; keueisy chwech heb odech pechawd; gwen glaer uch gwengaer yt ym daerhawd; keueisy sseith ac ef gweith gordygnawd; keueisy wyth yn hal pwyth peth or wawd yr geint; ys da deint rac tauaed.

Jack: No, I just want to reach 40.

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

Never tell your resolution beforehand.

All I can say is for a guy like me, who's been dangling in this business for the last 20 years, to finally have something hit, it's unexpected and very touching. (2003)

I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Sometimes the path you are on is not as important as the direction you are heading. For, no matter if you take the Holland Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge you get to New Jersey, so long as you are heading west. The procedure involved in your path to Nirvana may meander, but a road worth traveling will have its twists and turns.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Trees don't grow to the sky.

The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure.

All the opinions in the world point out that pleasure is our aim.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.