best quotations about
Goals |
and Targets, Objectives, Purpose
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Quotations
 | He who has a “why” to live for can bear almost any “how”. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 24 likes |
 | The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 10 likes |
 | Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | If you don't have your own goals, you'll be doomed to work toward someone else's. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 9 likes |
 | My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 8 likes |
 | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 8 likes |
 | Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 6 likes |
 | Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 5 likes |
 | It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 5 likes |
 | The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 5 likes |
 | A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 5 likes |
 | The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 5 likes |
 | One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 5 likes |
 | To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 5 likes |
 | Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 5 likes |
| A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 5 likes |
 | Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 5 likes |
 | No wind favors he who has no destined port. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 4 likes |
 | Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 4 likes |
 | If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes |
 | In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 4 likes |
 | In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
 | As you climb the ladder of success, be sure it's leaning against the right building. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | If you have more than five goals, you have none. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone. — Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
| When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 3 likes |
 | An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 3 likes |
 | If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey. Without her you would not have set out. She has nothing left to give you now. — Constantine Kavafy, 1868-1933, Greek poet ‐ Ithaka 2 likes |
 | The most depraved type of human being ... the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 2 likes |
| 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, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| Don’t set your goals too low. If you don’t need much, you won’t become much. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
| A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
| Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | A goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot. — Joe Vitale, 1954-, American artist & writer 2 likes |
| When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. |
| Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. |
 | If someone aims too high, most people will not understand when he succeeds. |
 | The goal is not always set to be achieved, but to serve as a focal point. |
| To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach. |
| Every ceiling reached becomes a floor. |
 | For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. |
 | Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. |
 | A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. |
 | Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot. |
 | You'll never decide what you want until you've decided who you are. |
 | One of the things that happens at the speed of light is that people lose their goals in life. So what takes the place of goals and objectives? Well, role-playing is coming in very fast. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast. |
| Searching means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. |
| Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. |
| My main object in life is to see what will happen next. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it. |
 | When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. |
 | Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. |
 | No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life. |
Funny Quotes
 | I intend to live forever. So far, so good. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes |
 | I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. — Lily Tomlin, 1939-, American actress 6 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | It is more difficult to preserve than to acquire. Χαλεπώτερον το φυλάττειν του κτήσασθαι. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 8 likes |
 | It is crazy to want what is impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so. Το τα αδύνατα διώκειν μανικόν. Αδύνατον δε το τους φαύλους μη τοιαύτά τινα ποιείν. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations V, 17 4 likes |
 | Yet, for a man to get what he wants, he must go against his own nature and act like a slave. Αλλ’ εις το κέρδος παρά φύσιν δουλευτέον. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Phoenissae 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | The end justifies the means. 3 likes |
