Goals Quotes
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
If you would hit the mark you must aim a little above it: Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!
Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.
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.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose-a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
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.
To grow and know what one is growing towards-that is the source of all strength and confidence in life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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.
There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.
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.
He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
Set short term goals and you'll win games. Set long term goals and you'll win championships!
In this life we get only those things for which we hunt for which we strive and for which we are willing to sacrifice.
So long as I believe I have to do certain things I will just go right ahead. That's how I run my life.