Selected goals quotes

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

2. Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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

4. Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

5. Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.

9. How can I fail when I have no purpose?

10. I'm just moving clouds today, tomorrow I'll try mountains.

11. Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

12. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

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

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

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

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

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

25. 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.

26. Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

27. 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.

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

29. 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.

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

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

32. 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.

33. I had three goals and all of them were met.

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

35. 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.

36. 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.

37. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

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

39. 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.

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

41. Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

42. If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

43. Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.

44. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

45. The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

46. I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

47. Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

48. The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

49. One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.

50. If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

51. War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

52. To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

53. By the time we've made it, we've had it.

54. How to succeed? Try hard enough.

55. The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

56. Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

57. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

58. A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for.

59. Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

60. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

61. Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without knowledge, people do not know what they can get rid of or what they can gain.

62. The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.

63. I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

64. Don't look over your shoulder and don't use or abuse others to get ahead. Keep your eyes focused on your goals and keep working for what you believe in and what you want to accomplish.

65. Success for me isn't a destination it's a journey. Everybody's working to get to the top but where is the top? It's all about working harder and getting better and moving up and up.

66. 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.

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

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

69. Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

70. Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

71. It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

72. A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

73. I believe in being an innovator.

74. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

75. Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.

76. I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House.

77. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

78. But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

79. Romeo wants Juliet as the filings want the magnet; and if no obstacles intervene he moves towards her by as straight a line as they. But Romeo and Juliet, if a wall be built between them, do not remain idiotically pressing their faces against its opposite sides like the magnet and the filings with the card. Romeo soon finds a circuitous way, by scaling the wall or otherwise, of touching Juliet's lips directly. With the filings the path is fixed; whether it reaches the end depends on accidents. With the lover it is the end which is fixed, the path may be modified indefinitely.

80. Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

81. My new question was, What do you do when your dreams come true? My answer was: Find new ones.

82. I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.

83. Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

84. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

85. I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.

86. Action is the foundational key to all success.

87. Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year- and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!

88. People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

89. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

90. The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

91. There's no abiding success without commitment.

92. Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.

93. To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.

94. How can I be sure I've succeeded, if I can't remember what I was trying to do.

95. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

96. 'If someone says, 'Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?' Ignore him! What the hell difference does it make? The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.'

97. Don't fear failure. - Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

98. We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in america.

99. Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

100. Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all.