Goals Quotes

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard bringsmore satisfaction in the end.

~ Megan Hart

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.

~ T.m. Goeglein

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss.

~ Kristine Thomas

If you want to make dough, do a bun dance.

~ Stephen Richards

After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business.

~ Chalene Johnson

Treat yourself like a fast person with aches and pains and a suitcase full of excuses, and good luck--you'll stay exactly where you are. Train like an athlete and, though you may not look like one now, you will become one. --Push: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, p. 214

~ Chalene Johnson

Dive deep and make your discovery.

~ Fennel Hudson

Stop blaming and start aiming.

~ Rob Liano

The beauty in our beliefs causes us to let our grassy goals and dreams take root, for sorrow gives seed to success, success blossoms into significance, and significance transcends the seasons that come and go with the whims of the world.

~ Kayla Severson

If your portfolio is made up of the investments that you have made in the lives of people, you will have amassed a wealth so vast that all the portfolios that will ever float the trading floor on Wall Street would, by comparison, be reckoned as nothing. And if by chance we dared to live by this truth, we would in fact would love like none other.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Removing the finish line is a useful tactic if your goal is to just keep running the race.

~ Dashanne Stokes

The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting to come out. You'll be able to access the part of you that people like to be around. The part of you that feels upbeat about things. That feels like you're moving toward your goals without frustration and anxiety. That feels ecstatic to be alive! The more I meditate, the more I have these moments.

~ Russell Simmons

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

~ Thomas Hardy

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life I find.

~ John F. Kennedy

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.

~ Kurt Lewin

The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

~ Vauvenargues

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

~ Francis Bacon

The only thing to know is how to use your neuroses.

~ Arthur Adamov

Every ceiling when reached becomes a floor upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

~ Aldous Huxley

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

~ Goethe

The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.

~ David Starr Jordan

I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass children with bright eyes not being pushed around useful work that suits one's abilities plain tasty food and occasional satisfying nookie.

~ Paul Goodman

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

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

~ Robert Browning

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

~ La Rochefoucauld

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

~ Don Marquis

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the connection of events.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

~ Plutarch

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

~ Winston Churchill

Do not wish to be anything but what you are and try to be that perfectly.

~ St. Francis De Sales

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

~ Vince Lombardi

It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.

~ David Riesman

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

~ Joseph Joubert

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

~ Edmund Burke

Make no little plans they have no magic to stir men's blood . . . Make big plans aim high in hope and work.

~ Daniel H. Burnham

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~ Marc Ostrofsky

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.

~ Gary Ryan Blair

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

~ Steve Jobs