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Quotations about Goals



Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?" ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière, 1986


...it was a most mortifying reflection for any man to consider what he had done, compared with what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, as quoted by James Boswell


Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1995


...and only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go. ~T. S. Eliot, 1931


And lastly, a deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown, Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual, 1988


Have I made of life a treadmill, forever stepping but never getting on? Have I made of it a wheel flying round and round, but unbelted and without end or aim? ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), My Little Book of Life, 1912


Still, I should like to remind you at the end of it all, that success on an occasion of this kind, valuable and important as it is, is in reality only putting the foot upon one rung of the ladder which leads upwards; and that the rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. I trust that you will all regard these successes as simply reminders that your next business is, having enjoyed the success of the day, no longer to look at that success, but to look forward to the next difficulty that is to be conquered. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, "On Medical Education," speech, 1870


The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ~J. M. Power, in The Sign, as quoted by The Reader's Digest, 1922


We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan


Garbage clutters the house that has no dream. ~Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife, tweet, 2012


If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1963


As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


It is only the first step that is difficult. ~French proverb


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854


One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. That is the law of my life. ~Bernard Shaw


I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of climbing over that seemingly high (but actually rather unimpressive) obstacle. ~Jeb Dickerson, @JebDickerson, tweet, 2009


There is no greater mistake than to try to leap an abyss in two jumps. ~David Lloyd George


The shortest distance between two points assumes you know where you're going. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


Word by word the big books are made. ~French proverb


Every day spent happily striving toward some imagined goal is to realize the real goal, which is to spend your days happily. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. ~Will Smith


All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~T. E. Lawrence


Map out your future, but do it in pencil. ~Jon Bon Jovi, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 2002


Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), "Drift Wood, A Collection of Essays: Table-Talk," Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1857


The moral of this fable is that if you're not sure where you're going, you're liable to end up someplace else. ~Robert F. Mager, Preparing Objectives for Programmed Instruction, 1961


Robert Mager, in his book on objectives, told a fable, the moral of which is this:  If we do not know where we are going, we may end up somewhere else. I would like to stretch that thought even further:  If we do not know where we are going, we may end up somewhere else, and not even know it! ~Hilliard Jason, "A Glimpse of Tomorrow," 1967


In my lecture, Destiny Lies Ahead, I tell my students, "If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else." ~Laurence F. Peter, The Peter Principle, 1969


When you're going around in circles, it is not progress to report a sharp increase in circles completed. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble


A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com


As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ~Bernard Shaw


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, 1881


One may as much miss the Mark, by aiming too high, as too low. ~Proverb


Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate, as quoted in The Reader's Digest, 1988


You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. ~James R. Sherman  [quoteinvestigator.com]


It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~Unattributed saying, c.1881, that likely evolved from Adelaide Anne Procter's poem containing the line "We always may be what we might have been"; sometimes also quoted as "It is never too late to be who you might have been" and mistakenly attributed to George Eliot  [quoteinvestigator.com]


Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n! ~Albert Einstein, c.1903, quoted by Martin André Rosanoff in "Edison in His Laboratory," Harper's Magazine, September 1932  [quoteinvestigator.com]


The greatest joy in a goal achieved
Is sharing the moment with one who believed.
~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com





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