Goals Quotes

You decide what it is you want to accomplish and then you lay out your plans to get there and then you just do it. It's pretty straightforward.

Get out of the blocks run your race stay relaxed. If you run your race you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

Know what you want to do-then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.

There is a place in God's sun for the youth "farthest down" who has the vision the determination and the courage to reach it.

You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes but above me and within me there was a spirit stronger than them all.

No matter what the competition is I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power.

Normal is not something to aspire to it's something to get away from.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!

Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree-they bear no fruit.

I am not sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.

Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

One of the most important factors not only in military matters but in life as a whole is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

One cannot manage too many affairs: like pumpkins in the water one pops up while you try to hold down the other.

One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they ... divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

He who begins many things finishes but few.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

Never try to catch two frogs with one hand.

If you run after two hares you will catch neither.

The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.

He who wishes to fulfill his mission in the world must be a man of one idea one great overmastering purpose overshadowing all his aims and guiding and controlling his entire life.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other.

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

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.