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Goals |
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| "No wind serves him who addresses his
voyage to no certain port." |
| -- Michel de Montaigne |
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| "Arriving at one goal is the starting
point to another.” |
| -- John Dewey |
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| "Like a pole vault
competitor, we need to raise the bar ever higher, higher beyond
the goals of moments passed, higher to the heights of
moments long visualized in the sweat of our desires-- there,
satisfaction waits for us... and hitting the ground again is the end
of a magical flight." |
| -- Alfred Emerson
Unaterra, American philosopher |
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| "Obstacles
are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your
goal." |
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--
Henry Ford, American inventor and manufacturer |
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| "The reason most people never reach their
goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even
seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can
tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way,
and who will be sharing the adventure with them." |
| -- Denis Waitley |
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| "Most success springs from an obstacle or
failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal
of becoming a successful executive." |
| -- Scott Adams, American cartoonist |
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"If
you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning
desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals."
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--
Lou
Holtz, American football coach
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| "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot
first and call whatever you hit the target." |
| -- Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant (b. 1933), UC
Berkeley philosopher |
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| "The major reason for setting a goal is
for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will
always be the far greater value than what you get." |
| -- Jim Rohn |
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- "The goal of life is living in agreement with
nature."
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| -- Zeno (335 BC- 263 BC) |
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"Nothing noble is done without risk."
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--
Andre Gide (1869-1951), French Author |
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| "First say to yourself what you would be,
and then do what you have to do." |
| -- Epictetus |
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| "Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern
resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." |
| --
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor |
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| "Difficulties increase the nearer we
approach our goal." |
| -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832),
German writer, scientist |
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"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
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--
John Dewey
, American educator and philosopher |
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| "Let me tell you the secret that has led
me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity." |
| -- Louis Pasteur |
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| "If you want to live a happy life, tie it
to a goal. Not to people or things." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "It
seems to me that perfection of means and confusion of goals seems to
characterize our age." |
| -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-82), American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist |
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| "Never
try to catch two frogs with one hand.' |
| -- Chinese
Proverb |
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| "If you don't know where
you're going, you'll end up someplace else." |
| --
Yogi Berra, American baseball player and coach |
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| “A goal is a dream that has an ending.”
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| -- Duke Ellington |
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| "How far would Moses
have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?" |
| --
Harry Truman, American President |
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| "There came a time when the risk to remain tight
in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
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--
Anais Nin, American writer
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| "A goal is not always meant to be reached,
it often serves simply as something to aim at." |
| -- Bruce Lee (1940-73), Martial arts actor |
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"The potential of
the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent
unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled
toward some great good."
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--
Brian
Tracy, |
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"Let no one come to you without leaving better and happier." |
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-- Mother Theresa, Indian nun |
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| "The goal of life is living in agreement
with nature." |
| -- Zeno (335 BC - 263 BC) |
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| "He who would have fruit must climb the tree."
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--
Thomas
Fuller, |
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| “To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of
becoming, is the only end of life.” |
| -- Robert Louis Stevenson |
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| "Do not turn back when you are just at the
goal" |
| -- Publilius Syrus ( c. 100 BC) |
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| "The most important thing about having
goals is having one." |
| -- Geoffrey F. Abert |
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| “Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of
honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the
goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good
means.” |
| -- Charles Dickens |
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| "Like the winds of the sea are the winds
of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul
That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife." |
| -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919), American
writer, poet |
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| "Some men give up their designs when they have almost
reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by
exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever
before." |
| -- Heroditus (5th century BC), Greek historian |
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| "When someone is seeking. . . it happens
quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he
is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is
only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal,
because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal;
but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no
goal." |
| -- Herman Hesse, German writer |
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| “The
ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy
of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort
or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on
this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.” |
| -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
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| "I dread success. To have succeeded is to
have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is
killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I
like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not
behind." |
| -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
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| "My goal is simple. It is complete
understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists at
all." |
| -- Stephen Hawking, English theoretical
physicist |
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