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Quotations about goals

Jim RohnThe ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

 - Jim Rohn

Tags:   goals  inspiration  

Louisa May AlcottFar away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

 - Louisa May Alcott

Tags:   aspirations  goals  inspiration  

Thomas JeffersonNothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

 - Thomas Jefferson

Tags:   achievement  attitude  goals  

Friedrich NietzscheNo one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

 - Friedrich Nietzsche

Tags:   goals  life  perseverance  

Michel de MontaigneWhatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   goals  happiness  possession  

Isaiah BerlinInjustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

 - Isaiah Berlin

Tags:   goals  positivity  reform  revolution  

Isaiah BerlinThere exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision . . . and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory . . .The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

 - Isaiah Berlin

Tags:   goals  vision  

Bruce LeeA goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

 - Bruce Lee

Tags:   goals  motivation  

Walt DisneyA person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

 - Walt Disney

Tags:   goals  life  rewards  talent