Goals Quotes

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

Reach high for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal.

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.

The proper function of man is to live-not to exist.

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

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.

A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

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.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.

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.

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

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.

Let us live while we are alive!

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.

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.

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.

The business of life is to enjoy oneself everything else is a mockery.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of perhaps only some formula of peace.

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?

I've always had such high expectations for myself. I'm aware of them but I can't relax them.

We're half the people we should be half the Congress.

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.

If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Nearly every glamorous wealthy successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlepp.

It's not enough to just swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let it fly.

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.

Someday someone will follow in my footsteps and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. And I wish him well.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

I might have been born in a hovel but I am determined to travel with the wind and the stars.

My motto: sans limites.

[My father] said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

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

I always ask the question "Is this what I want in my life?"

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection we have forfeited our manhood.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always this occupation ought to last as long as life.

I was born to be a remarkable woman it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty ihen happiness comes of itself.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.

If ambition doesn't hurt you you haven't got it.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something completely great.

The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.

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.

The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

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.