Goals Quotes

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.

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

Too low they build who build beneath the stars.

I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a little girl. I want to rule the world.

I truly believe that before I retire from public office I'll be voting for a woman for president.

If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Not failure but low aim is crime.

Great is the road I climb but... the garland offered by an easier effort is not worth the gathering.

You have to erect a fence and say "Okay scale this."

You can change your beliefs so they empower your dreams and desires. Create a strong belief in yourself and what you want.

What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

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.

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

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.

Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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 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.

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

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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.

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

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

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

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.

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

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.