Quotes on Goals
“I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars.”
Ray Bradbury, Goals
"You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive."
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“‘Stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.’”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury, Life, Goals
“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Goals
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Goals
“I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman, Goals
“Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...
Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...
Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Goals
“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Goals
“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.”
― Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, Goals
“Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Goals
"Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I was always trying to stay one to two steps ahead of the game."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Time to show ya how its gon be done."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"If you always do what you’ve always done... you’ll always get what you always got."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I’ve attained my mass basically by training hard and very, very heavy."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"The time between sets should be short and just long enough so that you are sufficiently recovered to hit the next set hard."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I take about 12 weeks to get ready for a show. But I train all year round."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"What I've always tried to do is pick short-term goals."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Lightweight, Yeah buddy!"
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"No dessert. I don't do dessert."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Let’s go eat!"
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Just because your triceps have fallen behind your biceps, doesn’t mean you should back off your triceps workouts."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I always say to myself right before a tough set in the gym, Ain’t nothin’ to it, but to do it."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Train harder and grow bigger."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"The next thing I would have to go with is diet because it is so hard and mentally tough. By comparison, the training is the easiest of them all because it’s my hobby as well as my job."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Get proper training right from the beginning. It prevents injuries and avoids wasting your time with misdirected effort, which is what most people generally don’t understand. Give it your all from day one."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I'm always trying to improve on my overall package. Just try to get a little bit harder and maintain the same muscle quality."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"No matter what I was doing, I always wanted to be the best."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"You have to train the best way that is suited to you, a way that will allow you to progress."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"Time to put that secret weapon on."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals
"I quit working in the police force full time only after I won my third Mr. Olympia."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"When you hit failure, your workout has just begun."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?"
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"When you love something as much as I love bodybuilding you don’t have to do much extra to push yourself, it just happens."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"It is a lot of pressure to prepare for Mr. Olympia."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I always train heavy and it worked well for me. Most people would be worried about an injury but if you’re gonna worry about it so much, it’s gonna happen anyway."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I work out every body part twice a week, and that is what helps me stay in shape."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"Hard work and training. There’s no secret formula. I lift heavy, work hard and aim to be the best."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"You can’t do this if you’re not dedicated and determined and have a strong faith. Because it’s extremely hard, especially trying to work a job and do it."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I have fans from every level of the fitness world, whether it’s the elite competitor or just someone living a healthy lifestyle, and it’s been my goal since day one to make sure that my brand has something to offer everyone."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"I’ve been training so long, it's second nature to push myself to the limit."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"There were some tough times and when those came up I just used my mental strength to push through knowing that my mind-controlled everything."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Life
"It's plain and simple. Work harder than everyone else and the only way to do that is to do it. It may sound silly but it's the truth and there ain't nothing to it but to do it!"
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Truth
"People actually go out of their way and say a prayer for me to do this. That really means a lot. I put my heart and soul, and when they pray it makes me work even harder and harder and harder."
Ronnie Coleman, Goals, Belief
12. "Tell Them All. Whoever Comes, Whoever It Is, I'll Kill Them. I'll Kill Them All."
- John Wick in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
John Wick, Anger and Fighting, Goals
1. "People Keep Asking If I'm Back, And I Haven't Really Had An Answer. But Now, Yeah! I'm Thinking I'm Back!"
- John Wick in John Wick (2014)
John Wick, Goals
"We are still here!" – Morpheus (The Matrix Reloaded)
The Matrix, Goals
"You have to let it all go, Neo - fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind!" – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Goals
"To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human." – Mouse (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life, Goals
"You take the blue pill... the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill... you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." – Morpheus (The Matrix)
The Matrix, Life, Goals
“I’m rich and they can’t take it, I’m just happy that we made it.”
King Von, Society, Wealth, Goals
“Watch who you f*ck with the ones you think are real, they fake.”
King Von, Sex, Goals
“I gotta drop on this flexing n*gga.”
King Von, Goals
“I need to make something raw real quick.”
King Von, Goals
“I only trust one person, and that’s my Glock.”
King Von, Goals
“If any n*gga want smoke, bring it.”
King Von, Goals
“Watch the people in your gang.”
King Von, Goals
“Can’t trust no b*tch.”
King Von, Goals
“Always watch your back for fake n*ggas.”
King Von, Goals
“You a real n*gga and you doing this sh*t the right way. Don’t let no n*gga tell you different and don’t let none of these weak *ss hoes throw you off.”
King Von, Goals
“I’m a player. Like I told you in the beginning. I was born a player. It’s the player sh*t. Just let the window down, just a little bit, pass the hoe her phone, and sh*t. I let them handle it. Y’all take care of that sh*t. Y’all make that sh*t right. I was going to leave.”
King Von, Goals
“You either gonna wait on it, or you gonna go and get it? The choice is yours.”
King Von, Goals
“You gotta do what you gotta do.”
King Von, Goals
“I’ll do whatever I can do.”
King Von, Goals
“I’m not doing sh*t for anything; I don’t give a f*ck about any of that sh*t. I don’t care about people; I care about my people.”
King Von, Goals
“I’m heartless, b*tch. You can call me the ‘Tin Man.’”
King Von, Goals
“Don’t believe all that sh*t, man.”
King Von, Goals
“You gotta look out for your people, man.”
King Von, Goals
“I am what I am. What I’m not, see I’ll never be.”
King Von, Goals
“I done did my time, I’m chillin’.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“There’s only so many options if a n*gga like you has felonies and sh*t. This one wasn’t working for me. This one wasn’t going right. I ain’t good at this. This is gonna get you a lot of time, so I’ma try rapping.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“I’m gettin’ bigger, you just got to know how to handle that sh*t. People goin’ to be up in your business now.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“Everybody that f*cks with me, they f*ck with me, but I have to get busy because it’s all about building and going up.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“A person that stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
King Von, Goals, Life
“You have to go harder so everybody can talk about you. The more people know you, the more money you get.”
King Von, Goals, Success, Wealth
“Give positive vibes out even though what we rappin’ about is really just entertainment right now. It’s just music.”
King Von, Goals, Art, Music
" I have a big heart full of love, so please take it all."
BTS: V, Love, Goals
"Purple is the last color of the rainbow. Purple means I will trust and love you for a long time."
BTS: V, Love, Goals
"Don't be trapped in someone else's dream."
BTS: V, Goals
"Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
BTS: Suga, Goals, Life
"Emotions are so different in every situation and every moment, so I think to agonize every moment is what life is."
BTS: Suga, Goals, Life
"Those who keep trying without giving up are the ones who succeed."
BTS: Jin, Success, Goals
"If we all gather our embarrassment together, it’ll become confidence."
BTS: Jin, Life, Goals
"Those who want to look more youthful should live life with a young heart."
BTS: Jin, Life, Goals
"Your presence can give happiness. I hope you remember that."
BTS: Jin, Happiness, Goals
"Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It takes time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practicing. So practice. You may get depressed, but it’s evidence that you are doing good."
BTS: Jungkook, Goals
"I’m like a surfer, first you just paddle and fall off the board but as time goes by you can stand up on the bigger waves."
BTS: RM, Goals, Life
"Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds."
BTS: RM, Goals
"Go on your path, even if you live for a day.”
BTS: Jimin, Goals
"I hope you will never give up. Remember there is a person here in Korea, in the city of Seoul, who understands you."
BTS: Jimin, Goals, Life
"Even when this rain stops, when clouds go away, I stand here, just the same."
BTS: J-Hope, Goals
"The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I'd like to create and write more music that represents them."
BTS: J-Hope, Goals, Music
"When things get tough, look at the people who love you! You will get energy from them."
BTS: J-Hope, Goals, Love, Life
“You want my advice? Don’t play yourself.”
DJ Khaled, Goals
“Them doors that was always closed, I ripped the doors off, took the hinges off. And when I took the hinges off, I put the hinges on the f**kboys’ hands.”
DJ Khaled, Goals
“I wanted to see what type of trees is growing in Marcy Projects, what type of water Jay Z was drinking.”
DJ Khaled, Goals
“Always have faith. Always have hope.”
DJ Khaled, Goals
“There will be road blocks but we will overcome it.”
DJ Khaled, Goals
“I can deal with everything. I got the answer for anything. This DJ Khaled.”
DJ Khaled, Goals
“They will try to close the door on you, just open it.”
DJ Khaled, Life, Goals
“People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.”
DJ Khaled, Life, Goals
“You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.”
DJ Khaled, Life, Goals
“...After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world. I am strongly of the opinion that the great majority of people will always find these are the moving impulses of our life. But it is only those who do not understand our people, who believe that our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things that we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism.”
Calvin Coolidge, Business, Wealth, Goals, Life
“I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.”
Calvin Coolidge, Government, Goals
“They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.”
Calvin Coolidge, Society, Goals, Criticism, Problems
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.
Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.”
Calvin Coolidge, Society, Government, Goals, Freedom
“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Goals
“We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals
“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals
“The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good. The country is better off tranquilly considering its blessings and merits, and earnestly striving to secure more of them, than it would be in nursing hostile bitterness about its deficiencies and faults.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Government
“It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Government
“There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence, and that is to try to do the right thing and sometimes be able to succeed.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Government, Success
“It is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.”
― Calvin Coolidge, Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.”
Calvin Coolidge, Goals, Life
“Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.”
― Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge, Wealth, Goals
“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.”
Calvin Coolidge, Wealth, Goals
“I don’t want to be something that just comes and goes.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“I like to let things breathe.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“I ain’t a drinker I’m a thinker, call it what you want.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“Mark my word, I’m a make my mark, even when they start their martial Law. Even when these martians alienate, my mental state is still at heart.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That’s the art for me.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“Just let me be me, That’s the only way I know.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“I don’t talk about these things if I haven’t lived them, and I’ve hurt people in my life. It’s something I still have to think about when I sleep at night. The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“I’m trying to learn something new. I’m trying to surround myself with people that inspire me, or at least inquire similar desire.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“Everyday I try to escape the realities of this world.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“If a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“Live your life, live it right. Be different, do different things.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals
“We look so much on color that we forget about the soul.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“We’re all human at the end of the day, making mistakes. But learn from them is the key.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“The message I’m sending to myself – I can’t change the world until I change myself first.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role…To the faith that you’ll die alone.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Ya’ll don’t want me to win. I’m tryna follow dreams, you want me to follow trends.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“The sky can fall down, the wind can cry now. The strong in me, I still smile.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Take advantage. Do your best, don’t stress. You was granted everything inside this planet, anything you imagine, you possess.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people… if they care, they’ll notice. If they don’t, you know where you stand.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life
“Life will put many red lights in front of you, but sometimes we must push on the gas and trust god.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Life, Belief
If I speak the good into existence, that instant my dreams will unlock, money flow like water, I’ll just wait at the dock.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Success, Wealth
“Maybe because I’m a dreamer and sleep is the cousin of death.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Death
“Can’t let the government tell me how my future lookin’.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Government
“I walk alone with a cross and a diamond stone. I’m a diamond inside the rough, that’s too mighty for maricons.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Belief
“From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Music
“My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Music
“But what love got to do with it when you don’t love yourself?”
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Love
“The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Art
“The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you’re making a mistake but let you go on with it, that’s when it ruins your mind state as an artist.“
Kendrick Lamar, Goals, Art
“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
John Locke, Goals
“In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity" Ch.2, 8”
― John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
John Locke, Goals, Life
“To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.”
John Locke, Goals, Life
“Business of man is to be happy.”
John Locke, Goals, Happiness
“It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent, and moderate our persuasions.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.”
― John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
John Locke, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish which lies in the way to knowledge.”
John Locke, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“I pretend not to teach, but to inquire; and therefore cannot but confess here again,–that external and internal sensation are the only passages I can find of knowledge to the understanding. These alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this DARK ROOM. For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: which, would they but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man, in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Ideas
“One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Goals, Truth
“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”
― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, Goals, Truth, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.”
Ice Cube, Success, Goals
“I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don’t head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.”
Ice Cube, Goals
“You don’t wanna mess up what you’ve done. It’s like Jordan coming back: You’re scared to mess up the legacy.”
Ice Cube, Goals
“You better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
Ice Cube, Goals
“Drink some coffee, put some gangsta rap on, and handle it.”
Ice Cube, Goals
“I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people that stuck with me.”
Ice Cube, Goals
“The worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.”
Ice Cube, Goals
“If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“I am only 33, I’ve got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I’m looking forward to the future and I’m proud about the past.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I’m a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“Nothing wrong with being from the hood, but I’d rather my kids be visitors than residents.”
Ice Cube, Goals, Life
“America is dumb. It's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.”
Johnny Depp, Society, Goals
“Now, bring me that horizon.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I don't care. I'm just gonna smoke. I'm just gonna totally smoke. I'll finish these, go to the store and get a brand new pack, smoke the shit out of that one.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“Trips to the dentist-I like to postpone that kind of thing.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“When I see someone who just follows their dream and succeeds, and just does basically what they want to do and doesn't have to answer to anyone, obviously not harming anyone, that's great.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“If you catch me saying ‘I am a serious actor,’ I beg you to slap me.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“You gotta be careful: don't say a word to nobody about nothing anytime ever.”
Johnny Depp, Goals
“I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.”
Johnny Depp, Goals, Problems
“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Johnny Depp, Goals, Love
“Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Breathe. It’s only a bad day, not a bad life.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
“I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
Johnny Depp, Life, Goals
I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.
Clint Eastwood, Art, Goals
As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I don’t mind telling a dark side.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m a day-to-day-type person.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I do believe in self-help.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m just a kid – I’ve got a lot of stuff to do yet.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m not a regrets-type person.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
Men must know their limitations.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
If I was not a dreamer, I would have achieved nothing.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
Let’s not go and ruin it by thinking too much.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
You should never give up your inner self.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
Respect your efforts, respect yourself.
Clint Eastwood, Goals
I’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life
Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.
Clint Eastwood, Goals, Life, Happiness
"My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself."
Kim Kardashian, Love, Business, Goals
"I’m not buying her a fucking pair of shoes. I bought her a f**king career."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"Some people don’t know how to take some of the everyday, regular things that they have going for them and turn it into something else."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"I love meeting new people and telling them about my stories and my projects that I am working on."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"I always say you shouldn’t weigh yourself. I don’t even have a set of scales in my house."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms… my entire body is hairless."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"When there’s so many haters and negative things, I really don’t care."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"For me, skinny is just a style of jeans, not a goal."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"If you’re not into what I’m posting, don’t look."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"I’ll cry at the end of the day. Not with fresh makeup."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"You can say a lot of things about me, but you cannot say I don’t work hard. I don’t sing. I don’t dance. I don’t act. But I am not lazy."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever. It’s about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
"If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it."
Kim Kardashian, Goals
“You make mistakes, but I don’t have any regrets. I’m the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.”
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Mistakes
"I like everything a certain way. I’m not somebody who can just lay back and let it happen… And I think that’s what’s gotten me to where I am in life."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Life
"Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I’m not married; I don’t have kids; I can focus on my career."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Life
"I am just at a point in my life where I don’t want to be naive anymore. And I want to use my platform to get other people involved."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Life
"My career is based on openness and honesty."
Kim Kardashian, Goals, Work
“If I tell the truth about me, what can the world say? I’d love to be accepted, but I’m not seeking acceptance. If you are a fan, it’s because you’re a fan of who I am psychological, emotionally, and individually. The world can relate to a human being more than it can relate to a superstar.”
Kevin Gates, Truth, Goals, Life
“Money coming, money gotta flip it. I ain’t waiting on nobody, I’mma go get it.”
Kevin Gates, Wealth, Goals
“Pray to god someone prays for me.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Belief
“Fall in love fast, make sure I handle it delicate.”
Kevin Gates, Love, Goals
“I love God, I love everybody else around me as myself, and I love my enemy.”
Kevin Gates, Love, Goals, Belief
“When you got wisdom and knowledge you supposed to spread the world with some Soulja love.”
Kevin Gates, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
“Don’t mimic pretenders, just be who you are.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Self made stand up guy.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“And I came up from nothin’ just imagine that.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“You know everyday you grow, everyday you changin’.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Show me your true colors girl, I just want to see.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Whatever an individual chooses to do with themselves, long as it doesn’t affect me and they’re respectful with it, I don’t care what they do. Because I’m not perfect and I have flaws, so who would I be to be judgmental?”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Can you keep up with the lingo.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose… I know what my job is. And I always ran from it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I love to be clean. I wear the same things, all of my clothes pretty much look the same. I’m a plain and simple type of guy. I don’t really do a lotta busy colors and things of that nature. I feel like less is more.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I don’t get tired..what you tired of.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I’ve just always been a reader.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“You don’t have to like it but you gotta respect it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Don’t stress over people who couldn’t give 2 pennies about you.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Sometimes you have to let people bump their heads to realize that they are not making sense. Don’t try to figure them out or it will drive you crazy.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Climbin forward, strivin’, I’m a grinder. Rearview watchin’ what’s behind you: Peripheral, watchin’ what’s on side you.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“When trying to destroy you, they destroy themselves in the process. Fuck em’ — work harder!”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Struggles that I’m overcoming.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“When people say my name, I want them to feel a certain way, everybody walks around so numb. They’re not in touch. In the technological age, we become cold-hearted. I’m going to provoke you to feel. That’s what Islah does.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“A vision without action is merely a dream. Action, it’s the grind, it’s the hustle, it’s the persistence.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I’m a big skeptic so I won’t just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I’ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.”.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I’ve always stood on my own toe. I don’t need a team. don’t do the entourage thing, 30 people. I Just do not do that. That’s just not me.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“When you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not halfway.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Don’t let nobody know that you are a monster. Keep it on the tuck and then surprise ’em.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I have respect for every man that demands your respect.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“If you not in your own lane, create one.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I’ve had good times and I’ve had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I’m in because it could steer me into a depressed state.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Use the things that make you angry — as fuel to make you better.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Came from the bottom, we aim for the stars.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“My daily conversation, it consists of hustle. Grinding from the bottom sick and tired of struggle.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“If it matters to you, pursue it aggressively.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I always wanted a family.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“To inform, to improve, to make better, and I believe that’s what my first daughter did to me, so I named my first album after my first daughter.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I live by the ten percent rule. Save one, you save a thousand.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“I don’t sleep much. I don’t sleep much – I work, I work, I work.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Never break or fold, that’s what it takes to be major.”
Kevin Gates, Goals
“Love everything and everybody.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Love
“Sometimes it’s painful to relive the past, but sometimes you gotta relive the past in order to heal from it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed, and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything’s settled; you can see more.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“Watch people daily and you will see their true colors.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Life
“I’m not afraid to make mistakes.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Mistakes
“I don’t just listen to rap.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“It’s about really really being who you are as an individual and not apologizing for it, that’s what it is. I can feel the growth from my first mixtape to now. On every song, I want to give you a piece of who I am as an individual.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“I don’t pay attention to sales because it’s not about that for me. It’s about the music. Music is all I have.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music
“What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have gone through, whatever – I rap about it.”
Kevin Gates, Goals, Music, Friendship
“I never put too much pressure on myself when I’m the central thing, just because I don’t think I could handle it mentally. I haven’t really thought about the implications of carrying a movie. It still has to be just a fun, weird thing.”
Will Ferrell, Art, Goals
“A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.”
Will Ferrell, Art, Goals
“When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn’t hold back. Why get there and play it safe?”
Will Ferrell, Art, Goals, Success
“One of my first memories of being a kid was, ‘I want to have a real job when I grow up.’ And to me that meant you wear a suit and a hat and carry a briefcase and go to your job.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“You have to listen a lot, and you have to be open and ready to adjust to anything. It kind of provides a framework that you use all the time. You never really shut off that part of your brain when you’re doing something. It’s invaluable to have.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“When I was ten, I wrote an essay on what I would be when I grew up and said I would be a professional soccer player and a comedian in off season.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I’ve never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“If you’re flying with your children, it’s best to book them on the same flight and not on one where they have more legroom and are leaving at a different time. They could get there earlier than you, and that causes resentment. Two-year-olds can also never figure out those connecting flights. It just makes it harder, so travel as a family.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play ‘Monopoly’ by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I put my pants on just like the rest of you – one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make gold records.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“Personal philosophy: Clothing optional.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I often don’t think a lot about the ramifications of anything I do.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I have the physique a lot of people dream about having. It’s my obligation to share it with the world.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I guess destiny isn’t the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“Aren’t we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“We all know the moon isn’t made out of green cheese…but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it?”
Will Ferrell, Goals
“I live by ‘Earnin’ and burnin’.’ Meaning, I like to make money and spend it before I even have it. That’s the way I live my life.”
Will Ferrell, Goals, Wealth
“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“Enjoy the little fun things – like taking your kids to school – before they’re all grown up.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“I don’t know about living on an automatic pilot, but I’ve had times where I’ve decided to just test myself and my mettle, and for no good reason other than it’s what life is. Even before I was acting, I had, like, one day in high school I decided to just show them my pajamas, just for no good reason.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“What’s the point of being bad when there’s nothing good to stop you?”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“But for fatherhood advice, try to look your child in the eye…. Get to know their name; that becomes important when you want something. And remember to feed them. That’s about all you need.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it’s never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.”
Will Ferrell, Life, Goals
“There’s two kinds of people in this world. There’s hammers and nails ... You decide what to be ..”
Will Smith, Goals
“Jus’ remember, Lover Boy,” she said, “be nice to everybody you pass on your way up, coz you just might have to pass them again on your way down.”
Will Smith, Goals
“Stop thinking about the damn wall!” he said. “There is no wall. There are only bricks. Your job is to lay this brick perfectly. Then move on to the next brick. Then lay that brick perfectly. Then the next one. Don’t be worrying about no wall. Your only concern is one brick.”
Will Smith, Goals
“Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are just better at hiding it than others.”
Will Smith, Goals
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings & emotions.”
Will Smith, Goals
“Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.”
Will Smith, Goals
“The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be out-worked, period. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there's two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?
You're not going to out-work me. It's such a simple, basic concept. The guy who is willing to hustle the most is going to be the guy that just gets that loose ball. The majority of people who aren't getting the places they want or aren't achieving the things that they want in this business is strictly based on hustle. It's strictly based on being out-worked; it's strictly based on missing crucial opportunities. I say all the time if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready.”
Will Smith, Goals
“Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.”
Will Smith, Goals
“I want to be the person that is the first person there and the last person to leave. That's who I want to be, because I think the road to success is through commitment, and through the strength to drive through that commitment when it gets hard. And it is going to get hard and you're going to want to quit sometimes, but it'll be colored by who you are, and more who you want to be.”
Will Smith, Goals, Success
“To place the responsibility for your happiness on anybody other than yourself is a recipe for misery.”
Will Smith, Goals, Happiness
“You can't be scared to die for the truth. The truth is the only thing that is ever going to be constant.”
Will Smith, Goals, Death, Truth
“Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, & work hard. The right people ~ the ones who really belong in your life ~ will come to you & stay.”
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“If you are unwilling or unable to pivot and adapt to the incessant, fluctuating tides of life, you will not enjoy being here. Sometimes, people try to play the cards that they wish they had, instead of playing the hand they’ve been dealt. The capacity to adjust and improvise is arguably the single most critical human ability.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“How we decide to respond to our fears, that is the person we become. I decided to be funny.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“Life is like school, with one key difference—in school you get the lesson, and then you take the test. But in life, you get the test, and it’s your job to take the lesson.”
― Will Smith, Will
Will Smith, Life, Goals
“If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.”
Will Smith, Life, Goals, Time
“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, and to hide every pain.”
Will Smith, Life, Goals, Problems
“To love is to act.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Goals
“Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Goals
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Goals
“If you know what my love for you is! It is fire; it is molten lead; it is a thousand daggers in my heart.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Goals
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
Victor Hugo, Love, Goals
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!”
Victor Hugo, Love, Goals
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Goals
“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.”
Victor Hugo, Life, Goals
“If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Not being heard is no reason for silence.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Breathe, hope.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
Victor Hugo, Goals
“Be happy without picking flaws.”
Victor Hugo, Goals, Happiness
“As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.”
Victor Hugo, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun.”
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
― Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, Goals
“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.”
Virginia Woolf, Life, Goals
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, Life, Goals
“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...”
Virginia Woolf, Life, Goals, Love
“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf, Art, Goals, Life
"What can I say about this move? Nothing so I won't."
Macho Man, Goals
"Yeah what were you doing at Wrestlemania? Ohhhh yeeeeah I'd like to know. You weren't there to gloat were you? No I guess you weren't."
Macho Man, Goals
"Snap into a Slim Jim!"
Macho Man, Goals
"All I care about is that people are being entertained. It's not about being the world champion [in wrestling], it's about exciting the people. If you walk away entertained, then I did my job, and that's all I care about."
Macho Man, Goals
“Be a father first. Don’t put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Sex, Friendship
“I promised each and every Hulkamaniac when I went to that great battlefield in the sky I would bring the WWF title with me.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“We’re probably the opposite of the Osbournes. We run a very tight ship.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals
“If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don’t pick on their kids.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Problems
“I’m real critical of myself and if I take the bandana off my head I’m completely bald headed and go from being 58 to looking 68 instantly.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“People are really nice in the world. The majority of every single person I meet is really nice. Some people get excited, and some people freak out when they accidentally run into me, but across the board most people are really nice, so I just like to treat people how they treat me.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“In the ring, it’s fun to be the bad guy, but 24 hours a day, when you have to talk to kids, and you see Make-A-Wish kids that love you, the bad guy stuff is not fun. I’d rather be a good guy 24 hours a day than a bad guy just for a few minutes in the ring.”
Hulk Hogan, Goals, Life
“Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.”
Robert E Lee, Goals
“Shake off those gloomy feelings. Drive them away. Fix your mind and pleasures upon what is before you. All is bright if you will think it so. All is happy if you will make it so. Do not dream. It is too ideal, too imaginary. Dreaming by day, I mean. Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.”
Robert E Lee, Goals
“Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state.”
― Robert E. Lee, The Wit and Wisdom of Robert E. Lee
Robert E Lee, Goals
“Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.”
Robert E Lee, Goals
“I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.”
Robert E Lee, Goals
“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend--or to keep one.”
Robert E Lee, Goals, Friendship
“Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances.”
Robert E Lee, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.”
William James, Goals
“...Do every day or two something for no other reason that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.”
William James, Goals
“Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not. Thus the sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.”
William James, Goals
“My experience is what I agree to attend to.”
William James, Goals
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”
William James, Goals
“Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.”
William James, Goals
“I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.”
William James, Goals
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
William James, Goals
“Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.”
― William James, The Principles of Psychology
William James, Goals
“Now, my dear little girl, you have come to an age when the inward life develops and when some people (and on the whole those who have most of a destiny) find that all is not a bed of roses. Among other things there will be waves of terrible sadness, which last sometimes for days; irritation, insensibility, etc., etc., which taken together form a melancholy. Now, painful as it is, this is sent to us for an enlightenment. It always passes off, and we learn about life from it, and we ought to learn a great many good things if we react on it right. (For instance, you learn how good a thing your home is, and your country, and your brothers, and you may learn to be more considerate of other people, who, you now learn, may have their inner weaknesses and sufferings, too.) Many persons take a kind of sickly delight in hugging it; and some sentimental ones may even be proud of it, as showing a fine sorrowful kind of sensibility. Such persons make a regular habit of the luxury of woe. That is the worst possible reaction on it. It is usually a sort of disease, when we get it strong, arising from the organism having generated some poison in the blood; and we mustn't submit to it an hour longer than we can help, but jump at every chance to attend to anything cheerful or comic or take part in anything active that will divert us from our mean, pining inward state of feeling. When it passes off, as I said, we know more than we did before. And we must try to make it last as short as time as possible. The worst of it often is that, while we are in it, we don't want to get out of it. We hate it, and yet we prefer staying in it—that is a part of the disease. If we find ourselves like that, we must make something ourselves to some hard work, make ourselves sweat, etc.; and that is the good way of reacting that makes of us a valuable character. The disease makes you think of yourself all the time; and the way out of it is to keep as busy as we can thinking of things and of other people—no matter what's the matter with our self.”
William James, Life, Goals
“Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.”
William James, Life, Goals
“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
William James, Life, Goals
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― William James, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
William James, Life, Goals
“Can I see anothers woe,
And not be in sorrow too.
Can I see anothers grief,
And not seek for kind relief.
- On Anothers Sorrow”
― William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake, Goals
“For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand shall brush my wing.
William Blake, Goals
“To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
William Blake, Goals
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
William Blake, Goals
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
William Blake, Goals
“For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.”
William Blake, Goals
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion
William Blake, Goals
"Don't dress to kill, dress to survive."
Karl Lagerfeld, Goals
"I'm very impeccable and clean before I go to bed. When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door."
Karl Lagerfeld, Goals
"I've always known that I was made to live this way, that I would be this sort of legend."
Karl Lagerfeld, Goals
"Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."
Karl Lagerfeld, Goals
"Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself and not only because you wear expensive designer clothes. They are great, but lots of people are happy without them."
Karl Lagerfeld, Goals, Happiness
“Let there be light."
― Andrew Carnegie, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie, Goals
“Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals
“Do real and permanent good in this world.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals
“If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war in their daily conversations, they soon find themselves at war. People get that which their minds dwell upon, and this applies to a group or community or a nation of people, the same as to an individual.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Society
“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the best of him.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Society
“To summarize what I have said: Aim for the highest; never enter a bar-room; do not touch liquor, or if at all only at meals; never speculate; never indorse beyond your surplus cash fund; make the firm’s interest yours; break orders always to save owners; concentrate; put all your eggs in one basket, and watch that basket; expenditure always within revenue; lastly, be not impatient, for, as Emerson says, “no one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourselves.” I congratulate poor young men upon being born to that ancient and honourable degree which renders it necessary that they should devote themselves to hard work. A basketful of bonds is the heaviest basket a young man ever had to carry. He generally gets to staggering under it. We have in this city creditable instances of such young men, who have pressed to the front rank of our best and most useful citizens. These deserve great credit. But the vast majority of the sons of rich men are unable to resist the temptations to which wealth subjects them, and sink to unworthy lives. I would almost as soon leave a young man a curse, as burden him with the almighty dollar. It is not from this class you have rivalry to fear. The partner’s sons will not trouble you much, but look out that some boys poorer, much poorer than yourselves, whose parents cannot afford to give them the advantages of a course in this institute, advantages which should give you a decided lead in the race–look out that such boys do not challenge you at the post and pass you at the grand stand. Look out for the boy who has to plunge into work direct from the common school and who begins by sweeping out the office. He is the probable dark horse that you had better watch.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Road To Business Success
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Society
“It is now thirteen years since I ceased to accumulate wealth and began to distribute it. I could never have succeeded in either had I stopped with having enough to retire upon, but nothing to retire to.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Wealth
“This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community--the man of wealth thus becoming the mere trustee and agent for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Wealth
“Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible use of wealth.”
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Wealth
“Humanity is an organism, inherently rejecting all that is deleterious, that is, wrong, and absorbing after trial what is beneficial, that is, right. If so disposed, the Architect of the Universe, we must assume, might have made the world and man perfect, free from evil and from pain, as angels in heaven are thought to be; but although this was not done, man has been given the power of advancement rather than of retrogression. The Old and New Testaments remain, like other sacred writings of other lands, of value as records of the past and for such good lessons as they inculcate. Like the ancient writers of the Bible our thoughts should rest upon this life and our duties here. "To perform the duties of this world well, troubling not about another, is the prime wisdom," says Confucius, great sage and teacher. The next world and its duties we shall consider when we are placed in it.”
― Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and the Gospel of Wealth
Andrew Carnegie, Goals, Belief
“You're love is nothing I can't fight. Can't sleep with a man who dims my shine.”
Lady Gaga, Love, Goals
“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“Peace. it does not mean to be in a place where there is no trouble, noise, or hard work. it means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart.”
― Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga - The Fame
Lady Gaga, Goals
“To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“live your eyeliner, breathe your lipstick, and kill for each other."
Lady Gaga, Goals
“When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“They can't scare me, if I scare them first.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses, cuz we were born this way bitch!”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“You have to be unique, and different, and shine in your own way.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I had a boyfriend who told me I’d never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I’d fail. I said to him, ‘Someday, when we’re not together, you won’t be able to order a cup of coffee at the fucking deli without hearing or seeing me.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.”
Lady Gaga, Goals
“I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true.”
Lady Gaga, Goals, Truth
“I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.”
Lady Gaga, Goals, Truth
“People will always talk, so lets give them sumthin to talk about.”
Lady Gaga, Goals, Society
“Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”
Lady Gaga, Goals, Criticism
“Don't be a drag.
Just be a queen.”
Lady Gaga, Goals, Sex
“A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.”
Lady Gaga, Goals, Sex
“Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding. Find out what you already know and you will see the way to fly.”
― Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach, Goals
“I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but because I’d rather be with you than anywhere else in the world.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions
Richard Bach, Goals
“Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals
“Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions
Richard Bach, Goals
“Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.”
Richard Bach, Goals
“Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: If you´re alive it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals
“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”
Richard Bach, Goals
“To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals
“The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals
“You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.” ― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals, Power
“You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals, Power
“There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.”
― Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Richard Bach, Goals, Life
“This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals, Life
“I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Richard Bach, Goals, Life, Happiness
“We must remember that we cannot insulate our children from the uncertainties of the world in which we live or from the impact of the problems which confront us all. What we can do and what we must do is to equip them to meet these problems, to do their part in the total effort, and to build up those inner resources of character which are the main strength of the American people.”
Harry Truman, Goals, Society
“I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Society, Goals
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I was always dreaming about very powerful people – dictators and things like that. I was just always impressed by people who could be remembered for hundreds of years, or even, like Jesus, be for thousands of years remembered.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Start wide, expand further, and never look back.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I never listened to anyone who said I can’t do something.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Stop whining.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I’ll be back.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. you’ll get more satisfaction from having improved your neighborhood, your town, your state, your country, and your fellow human beings than you’ll ever get from your muscles, your figure, your automobile, your house, or your credit rating.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“If you don’t find the time, if you don’t do the work, you don’t get the results.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don’t blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier: Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then sluff off.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, The White Lotus Quotes From the Hit HBO Television Series
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“If I can see it and believe it, then I can achieve it.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Forget plan B. To test yourself and grow, you have to operate without a safety net.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“You have to build the ultimate physical machine, but also the ultimate mind.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I didn’t mind basic training. It taught me that something that seems impossible at the start can be achieved.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I love it when people say that something can’t be done. That’s when I really get motivated; I like to prove them wrong.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Dreams are for the dreamers. Goals are for achievers.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Never follow the crowd, go where it’s empty.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Don’t be afraid to fail.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I have inhaled, exhaled everything.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“I don’t walk away from things that I think are unfinished.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals
“For me, life is about continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals, Life
“All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Goals, Power
“My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.”
John Lennon, Art, Goals
“Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say that I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one.”
John Lennon, Goals
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.”
John Lennon, Goals
“I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.”
John Lennon, Goals
“Whatever gets you through the night.”
John Lennon, Goals
“Make your own dream.
That's the Beatles' story, isn't it? That's Yoko's story, that's what I'm saying now. Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not to put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.
That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be.
There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.”
John Lennon, Goals
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
John Lennon, Goals, Life
“War is over ... If you want it.”
John Lennon, Goals, Anger and Fighting
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
John Lennon, Goals, Friendship, Happiness
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
John Lennon, Goals, Love, Life
“There is nothing impossible to him who will try.”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“There are no more worlds to conquer!”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos…”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians… and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“There are so many worlds, and I have not yet conquered even one.”
Alexander the Great, Goals
“Now that the wars are coming to an end, I wish you to prosper in peace. May all mortals from now on live like one people in concord and for mutual advancement. Consider the world as your country, with laws common to all and where the best will govern irrespective of tribe. I do not distinguish among men, as the narrow-minded do, both among Greeks and Barbarians. I am not interested in the descendance of the citizens or their racial origins. I classify them using one criterion: their virtue. For me every virtuous foreigner is a Greek and every evil Greek worse than a Barbarian. If differences ever develop between you never have recourse to arms, but solve them peacefully. If necessary, I should be your arbitrator.”Alexander the Great, Goals, Management
“Capitalism – which in its purest form is entrepreneurism even among the poorest of the poor – does work; but those who make money from it should put back into society, not just sit on it as if they are hatching eggs.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Society, Goals
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson, Goals
“The best lesson I learned was to just do it. It doesn’t matter what it is, or how hard it might seem, as the ancient Greek, Plato, said, ‘The beginning is the most important part of any work.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
Richard Branson, Goals
“They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.”
― Richard Branson, The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
Richard Branson, Goals
“Live for the present –’ I heard my parents’ old maxim in the back of my head ‘– and the future will look after itself.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Goals
“Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.”
Richard Branson, Goals
“Never do anything if it means you can’t sleep at night.’ It’s a good rule to follow.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
Richard Branson, Goals
“Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life
Richard Branson, Goals, Success
“It is only by being bold that you get anywhere. If you are a risk-taker, then the art is to protect the downside.”
― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I've Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way
Richard Branson, Courage, Goals
“There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.”
Richard Branson, Work, Life, Goals
“I did for the fun of it.”
― Amelia Earhart, 20 Hours, 40 Min: Our Flight in the Friendship
Amelia Earhart, Happiness, Goals
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“In soloing - as in other activities - it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“But the fun of it is worth the price.”
― Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“But you know the more one does the more one can do.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never do things can and will do if there are things others cannot do and will not do.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“We’re always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we’d already got to.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Please let us not interfere with the other's work or play, nor let the world see our private joys or disagreements. In this connection I may have to keep some place where I can go to be myself, now and then, for I cannot guarantee to ensure at all times the confinement of even an attractive cage.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn't be done.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“What do dreams know of boundaries.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“As soon as we left the ground, I knew I had to fly.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The best way to do it, is to do it!”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“...Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying....”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“The most effective way to do it is to do it.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?”
Amelia Earhart, Goals
“Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Life
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Life
“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex
“Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.”
― Amelia Earhart, Last Flight: The World's Foremost Woman Aviator Recounts, in Her Own Words, Her Last, Fateful Flight
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex
“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex
“Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Sex, Freedom
“Experiment! Meet new people. That's better than any college education. You will find the unexpected everywhere as you go through life. By adventuring about, you become accustomed to the unexpected.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable.”
Amelia Earhart, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life
“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Goals
“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Stephen King, Goals
“There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
Stephen King, Goals
“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.
I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.
I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Stephen King, Goals
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Goals
“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons
Stephen King, Goals
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Stephen King, Goals
“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Stephen King, Goals, Courage
“Never pay for what you steal.”
Morgan Freeman, Goals
“If you want to see a miracle, Be a miracle.”
Morgan Freeman, Goals
“Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.”
Morgan Freeman, Goals
“Don't be different just for different's sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.”
Morgan Freeman, Goals
“Get busy living or get busy dying!”
Morgan Freeman, Goals
“Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen, that stillness becomes a radiance.”
Morgan Freeman, Life, Goals
“Let women chase you.”
Morgan Freeman, Sex, Goals
“Breaking up the whole into parts."
― Mao Tse-tung, On Guerrilla Warfare
Mao Zedong, Goals
“To rebel is justified.”
Mao Zedong, Goals
“The Communist party must control the guns.”
Mao Zedong, Goals, Government
“Firstly, do not fear hardship, and secondly, do not fear death.”
Mao Zedong, Death, Goals
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of our own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly - not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things; the outer limits would suffice.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
Che Guevara, Goals
“I don't care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...”
Che Guevara, Goals
“There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory; just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“I will fight with all the weapons within my reach rather than let myself be nailed to a cross or whatever.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”
― Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America
Che Guevara, Goals
“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
Che Guevara, Goals
“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”
Che Guevara, Goals
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
Che Guevara, Goals
“Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.”
Che Guevara, Goals, Justice
“If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
Che Guevara, Goals, Justice
“After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all of it. Except for Haiti and Santo Domingo, I have visited, to some extent, all the other Latin American countries. Because of the circumstances in which I traveled, first as a student and later as a doctor, I came into close contact with poverty, hunger and disease; with the inability to treat a child because of lack of money; with the stupefaction provoked by the continual hunger and punishment, to the point that a father can accept the loss of a son as an unimportant accident, as occurs often in the downtrodden classes of our American homeland. And I began to realize at that time that there were things that were almost as important to me as becoming famous for making a significant contribution to medical science: I wanted to help those people.”
Che Guevara, Goals, Life
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
Che Guevara, Goals, Life
“Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.”
- A dose of the reality of life and ambitions courtesy of from Mike Tyson.
Mike Tyson, Goals
“My main objective in the fight is to be a professional but to kill him.”
- Mike Tyson trying to frighten his opponent and also to stir controversy.
Mike Tyson, Goals
“I was gonna rip his heart out. I’m the best ever. I’m the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He’s no Alexander! I’m Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I’m Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I’m from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!”
- Mike Tyson boasting controversially about his prowess and his faith, demonstrating that real actions and faith can be at odds at times.
Mike Tyson, Goals, Belief
“If the rules are such that you can’t make progress, then you have to fight the rules.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“I would like to die on Mars — just not on impact.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“One of the really tough things is figuring out what questions to ask. Once you figure out the question, then the answer is relatively easy. I came to the conclusion that really we should aspire to increase the scope and scale of human consciousness in order to better understand what questions to ask. The only thing that makes sense to do is strive for greater collective enlightenment.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds aren’t in your favor.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“Take risks now. Do something bold. You won’t regret it.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“You guys are the magicians of the 21st century. Don’t let anything hold you back. Imagination is the limit. Go out there and create some magic.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“I think people can choose to be not ordinary. You know, they can choose to not necessarily conform to the conventions that were taught to them by their parents. So, yes, I think it’s possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“Never. I don’t ever give up. I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated. For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”
Elon Musk, Goals
“[Mars] would just be the greatest adventure. Ever. And very exciting. And I think we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can’t just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Life
“I think it’s very difficult to start companies and quite painful. There’s a friend of mine who’s got a good phrase for doing a startup: ‘It’s like eating glass and staring into the abyss.’ If you’re sort of wired to do it, then you should do it, but not otherwise. If you need inspiring words, don’t do it.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Business
“A source of strength, hm. That’s really not how I think about things. For me it’s simply: This is something that is important to get done, and we we should just keep doing it or die trying. I don’t need a source of strength. [Quitting] is not in my nature, and I don’t care about optimism or pessimism. F*ck that, we’re gonna get it done.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Strength
“I think most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying. One bit of advice: It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree — make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details, or there is nothing for them to hang on to.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Well, I do think there’s a good framework for thinking. It is physics. You know, the sort of first principles reasoning. What I mean by that is boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, as opposed to reasoning by analogy. Through most of our life, we get through life by reasoning by analogy, which essentially means copying what other people do with slight variations. And you have to do that. Otherwise, mentally, you wouldn’t be able to get through the day. But when you want to do something new, you have to apply the physics approach.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Science, Truth, Life
“It’s very important to actively seek out and listen very carefully to negative feedback. This is something that people tend to avoid because it’s painful, but I think this is a very common mistake. To not actively seek out and listen to negative feedback. […] When friends get a product, I say, ‘Look, don’t tell me what you like. Tell me what you don’t like.’ Because otherwise your friend is not going to tell you what he doesn’t like. You really need to sort of coax negative feedback. If somebody’s your friend or at least not your enemy, and they’re giving you negative feedback, then they may be wrong, but it’s coming from a good place.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Mistakes, Business
“Always take the position that you are to some degree wrong, and your goal is to be less wrong over time. One of the biggest mistakes people generally make, and I’m guilty of it too, is wishful thinking. You want something to be true, even if it isn’t true. And so you ignore the real truth because of what you want to be true. This is a very difficult trap to avoid. [So] just take that approach, that you’re always to some degree wrong, and your goal is to be less wrong.”
Elon Musk, Goals, Mistakes, Truth
“You have been the last dream of my soul.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Goals
“When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Goals
“Then tell the Wind and Fire where to stop, but don’t tell me.”
A Tale of Two Cities, Goals
"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."
John Wooden, Goals
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
John Wooden, Goals
"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden, Goals, Life
"Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them."
John Wooden, Goals, Friendship, Anger and Fighting
"Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world ... if you do so, you are insulting yourself."
Comparing your success, failures and economic status to others is detrimental for your well-being. Everyone's life is unique. A seemingly very wealthy person can be the most loneliest person in the world as compared to a poor but very happy person. Everyone's path to happiness and success is different from each other.
Bill Gates, Goals
"Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered."
Dr Seuss, Goals
"I meant what I said and I said what I meant."
Dr Seuss, Goals
"If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too."
Dr Seuss, Goals
"Think and wonder, wonder and think."
Dr Seuss, Goals
"Why fit in when you were born to stand out?"
Dr Seuss, Goals
"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
Dr Seuss, Goals
"Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s a great balancing act."
Dr Seuss, Life, Goals
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind."
Dr Seuss, Life, Goals
"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."
Dr Seuss, Life, Goals
“Wealth, my son, should never be your goal in life. Your words are eloquent but they are mere words. True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Wealth, Goals
“I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Will capitalize on this difference for it is an asset to be promoted to the fullest.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I speak? I will laud mine enemies and they will become friends; I will encourage my friends and they will become brothers. Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“No longer will I judge a man on one meeting; no longer will I fail to call again tomorrow on he who meets me with hate today.
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Just as nature made no provision for my body to tolerate pain neither has it made any provision for my life to suffer failure. Failure, like pain, is alien to my life. In the past I accepted it as I accepted pain. Now I reject it and I am prepared for wisdom and principles which will guide me out of the shadows into the sunlight of wealth, position, and happiness far beyond my most extravagant dreams until even the golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides will seem no more than my just reward.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“And most of all I will love myself. For when I do I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body, my mind, my soul, and my heart. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation. Never will I allow my mind to be attracted to evil and despair, rather I will uplift it with the knowledge and wisdom of the ages. Never will I allow my soul to become complacent and satisfied, rather I will feed it with meditation and prayer. Never will I allow my heart to become small and bitter, rather I will share it and it will grow and warm the earth.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will remember past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be master of my emotions.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will form good habits and become their slave.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Only action determines my value in the market place and to multiply my value I will multiply my actions.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Let others build a cave with their clay. I will build a castle with mine.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings yet depend on the charity of a flower for life.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Within me burns a flame which has been passed from generations uncounted and its heat is a constant irritation to my spirit to become better than I am, and I will.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?” I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day. So too, I will beat upon my heart with gratitude as I consider all who greeted yesterday’s sunrise who are no longer with the living today. I am indeed a fortunate man and today’s hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Goals
“Hafid, so far as material wealth is concerned, there is only one difference between myself and the lowliest beggar outside Herod’s palace. The beggar thinks only of his next meal and I think only of the meal that will be my last. No, my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Wealth, Happiness, Love, Goals
“In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure. Thus, the first law I will obey, which precedeth all others is—I will form good habits and become their slave.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Life, Goals
“I determine to render more and better service, each day, than I am being paid to render. Those that reach the top are the ones who are not content with doing only what is required of them.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Life, Goals
“Which two, among a thousand wise men, will define success in the same words; yet failure is always described but one way. Failure is man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Success, Problems, Goals
“love all manners of men for each has qualities to be admired even though they be hidden. With love I will tear down the wall of suspicion and hate which they have built round their hearts and in its place will I build bridges so that my love may enter their souls. I will love the ambitious for they can inspire me! I will love the failures for they can teach me. I will love the kings for they are but human; I will love the meek for they are divine. I will love the rich for they are yet lonely; I will love the poor for they are so many. I will love the young for the faith they hold; I will love the old for the wisdom they share. I will love the beautiful for their eyes of sadness; I will love the ugly for their souls of peace.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Love, Goals
“Most of all I will love myself. For when I do I will zealously inspect all things which enter my body, my mind, my soul, and my heart.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Love, Goals
“Again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Love, Goals
“My actions are ruled by appetite, passion, prejudice, greed, love, fear, environment, habit, and the worst of these tyrants is habit. Therefore, if I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits. My bad habits must be destroyed and new furrows prepared for good seed.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“My procrastination which has held me back was born of fear and now I recognize this secret mined from the depths of all courageous hearts. Now I know that to conquer fear I must always act without hesitation and the flutters in my heart will vanish. Now I know that action reduces the lion of terror to an ant of equanimity. I will act now.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“If I waste today I destroy the last page of my life.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“for when an act becomes easy through constant repetition it becomes a pleasure to perform and if it is a pleasure to perform it is man’s nature to perform it often. When I perform it often it becomes a habit and I become its slave and since it is a good habit this is my will. Today I begin a new life.”
The Greatest Salesman in the World, Life, Goals
“The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Life, Nature, Intelligence/Wisdom, Courage, Truth, Goals
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Nature, Life, Goals
“If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. Our very existence in that distant time requires that we will have changed our institutions and ourselves. How can I dare to guess about humans in the far future? It is, I think, only a matter of natural selection. If we become even slightly more violent, shortsighted, ignorant, and selfish than we are now, almost certainly we will have no future.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Goals, Power, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival.
Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Society, Technology, Goals
“The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Society, Technology, Goals
“I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology, Goals
“Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What was 'Apollo' really about?”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Goals
“If we are to send people, it must be for a very good reason - and with a realistic understanding that almost certainly we will lose lives. Astronauts and Cosmonauts have always understood this. Nevertheless, there has been and will be no shortage of volunteers.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Goals
“That's what this book is about: other worlds, what awaits us on them, what they tell us about ourselves, and - given the urgent problems our species now faces - whether it makes sense to go.
Should we solve those problems first?
Or are they a reason to go?”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Goals, Problems
“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals
“Laugh now, cry later.”
― Erma Bombeck, The Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank
Erma Bombeck, Goals
“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals
“Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals
“If I had my life to live over...
...I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.
I would have eaten popcorn in the "good" living room and worried less about the dirt when you lit the fireplace.
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would have burnt the pink candle that was sculptured like a rose before it melted while being stored.
I would have sat cross-legged on the lawn with my children and never worried about grass stains.
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television ... and more while watching real life.
I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband which I took for granted.
I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.
I would have gone to bed when I was sick, instead of pretending the Earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for a day.
I would never have bought ANYTHING just because it was practical/wouldn't show soil/ guaranteed to last a lifetime.
When my child kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now, go get washed up for dinner."
There would have been more I love yous ... more I'm sorrys ... more I'm listenings ... but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute of it ... look at it and really see it ... try it on ... live it ... exhaust it ... and never give that minute back until there was nothing left of it.”
― Erma Bombeck, Eat Less Cottage Cheese And More Ice Cream Thoughts On Life From Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck, Goals
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals, Courage
“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.”
Erma Bombeck, Goals, Courage
“I accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan...I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”
Margaret Sanger, Goals
“No gods, no masters.”
Margaret Sanger, Goals, Belief
“Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.”
Margaret Sanger, Goals, Life
“Progeny. We want fewer and better children who can be reared up to their full possibilities in unencumbered homes, and we cannot make the social life and the world-peace we are determined to make, with the ill-bred, ill-trained swarms of inferior citizens that you inflict upon us.”
― Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization
Margaret Sanger, Goals, Society
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members. [Explaining rationale for using prominent black leaders to advocate birth control and abortion]”
Margaret Sanger, Goals, Society
“Be joyful because it is humanly possible.”
Wendell Berry, Happiness, Goals
“...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.”
Wendell Berry, Nature, Goals
“We’ve all got to go through enough to kill us.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“When I rise up let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall let me fall without regret like a leaf.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“What can't be helped must be endured.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“What I stand for is what I stand on.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.”
Wendell Berry, Goals
“It is not a terrible thing to love the world, knowing that the world is always passing and irrecoverable, to be known only in loss. To love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.”
Wendell Berry, Goals, Love
“You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.”
Wendell Berry, Society, Goals
“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed, that's all who ever have.”
Margaret Mead, Goals
“Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead, Goals
“A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn’t sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn’t have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.' - James Baldwin”
― Margaret Mead, A Rap on Race
Margaret Mead, Goals
“There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that's the only thing that ever has.”
Margaret Mead, Goals
“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”
Margaret Mead, Goals
“If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse gift will find a fitting place.”
Margaret Mead, Society, Goals
“Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it … Start doing it.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals, Planning
“If the stress is something you can’t control: Embrace it. You can’t control it, but— How can you look at it from a different angle? How can you use it to your advantage? I couldn’t control the chaos of combat. I had to embrace it. I had to figure out a way to take advantage of it. Make it into your ally.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals
“Because emotion and logic will both reach their limitations. And when one fails, you need to rely on the other. When it just doesn’t make any logical sense to go on, that’s when you use your emotion, your anger, your frustration, your fear, to push further, to push you to say one thing: I don’t stop. When your feelings are screaming that you have had enough, when you think you are going to break emotionally, override that emotion with concrete logic and willpower that says one thing: I don’t stop. Fight weak emotions with the power of logic; fight the weakness of logic with the power of emotion.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals
“But we can’t ever think we are too good to fail or that our enemies are not capable, deadly, and eager to exploit our weaknesses. We must never get complacent. This is where controlling the ego is most important.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Goals
“Question yourself every day. Ask yourself: Who am I? What have I learned? What have I created? What forward progress have I made? Who have I helped? What am I doing to improve myself—today? To get better, faster, stronger, healthier, smarter?”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals
“Instead of letting the situation dictate our decisions, we must dictate the situation.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Goals
“You have to BE VIGILANT. You have to be ON GUARD. You have to HOLD THE LINE on the seemingly insignificant little things— things that shouldn’t matter—but that do.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals
“Because emotion and logic will both reach their limitations. And when one fails, you need to rely on the other. When it just doesn’t make any logical sense to go on, that’s when you use your emotion, your anger, your frustration, your fear, to push further, to push you to say one thing: I don’t stop.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals
“Humans can withstand almost inconceivable stress—and you can too. So that is your first step: Gain perspective. And to do that you must do something critical in many situations: Detach. Whatever problems or stress you are experiencing, detach from them. Stress is generally caused by what you can’t control.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals
“You can’t make people listen to you. You can’t make them execute. That might be a temporary solution for a simple task. But to implement real change, to drive people to accomplish something truly complex or difficult or dangerous—you can’t make people do those things. You have to lead them.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Goals
“Relax. Look around. Make a call.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Goals
“The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win—you pass the test. If you are mentally weak for that moment and you let that weakness keep you in bed, you fail. Though it seems small, that weakness translates to more significant decisions. But if you exercise discipline, that too translates to more substantial elements of your life.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Goals
“The people who are successful decide they are going to be successful. They make that choice. And they make other choices. They decide to study hard. They decide to work hard. They decide to be the first person to get to work and the last to go home. They decide they are going to take on the hard jobs. Take on the challenges. They decide they are going to lead when no one else will.”
― Jocko Willink, Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual
Jocko Willink, Goals, Success
“Leaders should never be satisfied. They must always strive to improve, and they must build that mind-set into the team. They must face the facts through a realistic, brutally honest assessment of themselves and their team’s performance. Identifying weaknesses, good leaders seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan to overcome challenges. The best teams anywhere, like the SEAL Teams, are constantly looking to improve, add capability, and push the standards higher. It starts with the individual and spreads to each of the team members until this becomes the culture, the new standard. The recognition that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders facilitates Extreme Ownership and enables leaders to build high-performance teams that dominate on any battlefield, literal or figurative.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Management, Goals, Problems, Success
“Prioritize your problems and take care of them one at a time, the highest priority first. Don’t try to do everything at once or you won’t be successful.” I explained how a leader who tries to take on too many problems simultaneously will likely fail at them all.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Management, Goals, Problems, Success
“Leaders should never be satisfied. They must always strive to improve, and they must build that mind-set into the team. They must face the facts through a realistic, brutally honest assessment of themselves and their team’s performance. Identifying weaknesses, good leaders seek to strengthen them and come up with a plan to overcome challenges. The best teams anywhere, like the SEAL Teams, are constantly looking to improve, add capability, and push the standards higher. It starts with the individual and spreads to each of the team members until this becomes the culture, the new standard. The recognition that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders facilitates Extreme Ownership and enables leaders to build high-performance teams that dominate on any battlefield, literal or figurative.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Management, Goals
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes to you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation. At first you may find that nothing happens there. But if you have a sacred place and use it, something eventually will happen.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals
“If you are falling....dive.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals
“If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals
“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals
“We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Life
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Nature
“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Happiness
“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
Joseph Campbell, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.”
Marcus Garvey, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
“One God, One Aim, One Destiny. (Motto of the UNIA)”
Marcus Garvey, Belief, Goals
“Who to tell what tomorrow will bring forth? Did they not laugh at Moses, Christ and Mohammed? Was there not a Carthage, Greece and Rome? We see and have changes every day, so pray, work, be steadfast and be not dismayed.”
Marcus Garvey, Belief, Goals
“Climb ye the heights of liberty and cease not in well doing until you have planted the banner of the Red, the Black and the Green on the hilltops of Africa.”
Marcus Garvey, Freedom, Goals
“Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.”
Marcus Garvey, Freedom, Goals
“Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain.”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“Was the crying voice from the grave that said, ‘Garvey, we have suffered for 250 years for your day and for your time; we expect something from you at this hour.’”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“It falls to our lot to tear off the shackles that bind Mother Africa. Can you do it?”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“For five years the Universal Negro Improvement Association has been advocating the cause of Africa for the Africans-that is, that the Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building up for themselves a great nation in Africa.”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“Whipped. It annoys me to be defeated; hence to me, to be once defeated is to find cause for an everlasting struggle to reach the top.”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“To have built up a new organization, which was not purely political, among Negroes in America was a wonderful feat, for the Negro politician does not allow any other kind of organization within his race to thrive.”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.”
Marcus Garvey, Goals
“It is hoped that when the time comes for American and West Indian Africans to settle in Africa, they will realize their responsibility and their duty. It will not be to go to Africa for the purpose of exercising an over-lordship over the natives, but it shall be the purpose of the Universal Negro Improvement Association to have established in Africa that brotherly cooperation which make the interest of the African native and the American and West Indian African one and the same, that is to say, we shall enter into a common partnership to build up Africa in the interest of our race.”
Marcus Garvey, Society, Goals
“Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that ‘while the home must always be the centre of one’s life, it should not be the boundary of one’s ambitions’.”
Margaret Thatcher, Sex, Goals, Life
“To those waiting with bated breath for that favorite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only this to say, ‘You turn if you want; the lady’s not for turning.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals
“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals
“Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals
“I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals
“If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals, Success
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
Margaret Thatcher, Goals, Planning
“As Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 I had the opportunity to put these convictions into effect in economic policy -
We intended policy in the 1980s to be directed towards fundamentally different goals from those of most of the post-war ear. We believed that since jobs (in a free society) did not depend on government but upon satisfying customers, there was no point in setting targets for 'full' employment. Instead, government should create the right framework of sound money, low taxes, light regulation and flexible markets (including labour markets) to allow prosperity and employment to grow.”
Margaret Thatcher, Government, Goals
“Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
Robert Frost, Goals
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
Robert Frost, Goals
“And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.”
Robert Frost, Goals
“I'd like to get away from earth awhile
And then come back to it and begin over.”
Robert Frost, Goals
“How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
Robert Frost, Goals
“We ran as if to meet the moon.”
Robert Frost, Goals
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
Robert Frost, Goals, Life
“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”
Robert Frost, Art, Goals
Only through action have I unlocked the power inside of me to become the person that I’ve always wanted to be.”
Mel Robbins, Power, Goals
"I was the problem and in five seconds, I could push myself and become the solution."
Mel Robbins, Problems, Goals
“I have a hard time finding the balance between not beating myself up when it doesn’t happen as fast as I’d like it to, and not wasting time while I wait for it to happen.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
"Start before you're ready. Don't prepare, begin."
Mel Robbins, Goals
"You have been assigned this mountain so you can show others that it can be moved."
Mel Robbins, Goals
“Pushing yourself to take simple actions creates a chain reaction in your confidence and your productivity.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“Win or lose, at least I'm doing something.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“This is where the #5SecondRule comes into play—you don’t have to want to do it, you just have to push yourself to do it.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“If you want to make your dreams come true, get ready for the long game.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“It’s so sad because waiting for validation will be the death of your dreams.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“Your dreams are your responsibility. No one is coming.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“Waiting until you are ready will not make it happen. The world doesn’t work that way.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“There are only two words of advice you need to improve any relationship. Say It.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“You need to celebrate that shit.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“When it comes to your dreams, you have two choices: pursue them or be haunted by them.”
Mel Robbins, Goals
“If you have one of those impulses that are pulling you, if you don’t marry it with an action within 5 seconds, you pull the emergency break and kill the idea.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Ideas
“Do it anyway. Part of the reason why you don’t have what you want in your life is because when you don’t feel like doing it, you don’t do it. Your life only gets easier when you do the hard things all the time. Push through your resignation and do it.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Life
“Every day you have a choice. You can turn toward the pull of your dreams or argue against it. Fighting that desire inside you and telling yourself, It will never happen for me create so much tension in your life.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Life
“What I’ve learned the hard way is that having the courage to pursue your dreams is way more important than actually achieving them.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Courage
"If all you ever do is think about what you want, it’s not a dream—it’s a wish. A dream requires action. It demands partnership. It only becomes real when you find the courage to step toward it.”
Mel Robbins, Goals, Courage
"Keep your phone out of the bedroom and get outside as often as you can."
Mel Robbins, Technology, Goals
Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion."
Wayne Dyer, Goals
"Change the way you see things and the things you see will change."
Wayne Dyer, Goals
"My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be."
Wayne Dyer, Goals
"Don’t die with your music still in you."
Wayne Dyer, Goals, Music
"Never underestimate your power to change."
Wayne Dyer, Goals, Power
"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."
Thomas Edison, Life, Goals
"Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!"
Thomas Edison, Courage, Goals, Society
"There's a way to do it better - find it."
Thomas Edison, Goals
"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
Thomas Edison, Ideas, Goals, Work
"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."
Thomas Edison, Ideas, Goals
"I start where the last man left off."
Thomas Edison, Ideas, Goals
Never get discouraged if you fail. Learn from it. Keep trying.
Thomas Edison, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
“I could have been a dancer. I just never got my shot at it.”
Theo Von, Goals
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
Will Rogers, Belief, Goals
“Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“Always drink upstream from the herd.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“Lead your life so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”
Will Rogers, Goals
“Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.”
Will Rogers, Life, Goals
“I must fight with all my strength so that the little positive things that my health allows me to do might be pointed toward helping the revolution. The only real reason for living.”
Frida Kahlo, Strength, Goals
“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
Frida Kahlo, Goals
“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness.”
Frida Kahlo, Goals
“The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become ‘somebody,’ and frankly, I don’t have the least ambition to become anybody.”
Frida Kahlo, Society, Goals
“I was born a bitch. I was born a painter.”
Frida Kahlo, Goals
“… There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.”
Frida Kahlo, Death, Goals
“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
Frida Kahlo, Hope, Happiness, Goals
“I don’t want you to think like I do. I just want you to think.”
Frida Kahlo, Goals
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”
David Hume, Goals
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
― ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’.
David Hume, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”
― ‘A Treatise Of Human Nature’.
David Hume, Goals
“Tis not unreasonable for me to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.”
― ‘A Treatise Of Human Nature’.
David Hume, Goals
“If you will do the things others won’t do, then some day, you will have the life others won’t have.”
Dave Ramsey, Life, Goals
“If you will do the things others won’t do then some day you will have the life others won’t have.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“We are being taught by everything around us to have dessert before dinner. Now we are paying for our lack of knowledge and discipline.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don’t back down.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“No one wins the Super Bowl accidentally. Be intentional. Be Passionate. Don’t mail it in! You got this!”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“Don’t buy things you can’t afford, with money you don’t have, to impress people you don’t like.”
Dave Ramsey, Finance, Goals
“So content people may not have the best of everything, but they make the best of everything. That is who you want your children to be.”
Dave Ramsey, Wealth, Goals
“Live like no one else, so later you can live like no one else.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“Goals are visions and dreams with work clothes on.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“You must walk to the beat of a different drummer. The same beat that the wealthy hear. If the beat sounds normal, evacuate the dance floor immediately! The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“There is tremendous satisfaction in working your tail off to hit a goal, then winning. It is worth the work.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals, Success
“Children are sponges—they are going to absorb whatever is around them, so we need to be intentional about what surrounds them.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“Study the habits of the people you want to be like and then imitate them. If they are succeeding, they must be doing something right.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals, Success
“Nothing happens without focus. Don’t try to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
“Your priorities, passions, goals, and fears are shown clearly in the flow of your money.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals, Finance
“We have a retirement crisis in America today not from a lack of money, but from a lack of vision.”
Dave Ramsey, Finance, Goals
“There’s not a party, a congressman, a senator, etc. elected that will fix your life. You have to fix your life.”
Dave Ramsey, Government, Life, Goals
“Where you are today is the sum of every choice you’ve ever made. If you don’t like where you are, start making different choices!”
Dave Ramsey, Life, Goals
“The goal is to not be normal, because as my radio listeners know, normal is broke.”
Dave Ramsey, Goals
"Not knowing when the dawn will come
I open every door."
Poem – Not knowing when the dawn will come
Emily Dickinson, Goals
“Begin with the end in mind.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Be proactive.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Think win-win.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Put first things first.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Listen with your eyes for feelings.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Be a light not a judge. Be a model not a choice. be part of the solution not part of the problem.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.”
Stephen Covey, Goals
“Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities, organize your life around them.”
Stephen Covey, Goals, Life
“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”
Stephen Covey, Goals, Life
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey, Goals
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey, Goals
Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.
Stephen Covey, Goals
“I do not walk away in the face of adversity and never have.”
Stevie Nicks, Problems, Goals
“I’m going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I’m 75 – and that’s just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn’t get tangled in my rocking chair.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“If I had my life to live over, I would never dream.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“If you can find a passion at a young age, somewhere between fifteen and thirty, if you can find that passion, I can pretty much guarantee you that you can be sixty-five and still love that passion and still have a reason to dance out of bed and down the hall every morning.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“I’m going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I’m going to write the songs that people can’t write for themselves.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“Don’t be lady. Be a legend.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“I saw her do ‘Different Drum’ and thought, that’s what I’m gonna do. I don’t look that good in cut-offs, but that’s what I’m gonna do.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn’t want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals
“I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals, Sex
“Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Music, Goals
“I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.”
Stevie Nicks, Goals, Music
“Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don’t want to go to PTA meetings.”
Stevie Nicks, Life, Goals
“I didn’t want to look like anyone else – like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That’s why I never went to any of the big designers.”
Stevie Nicks, Success, Goals
“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self-interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”
Milton Friedman, Goals, Society
“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for the military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.”
Milton Friedman, Government, Goals
“Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.”
Milton Friedman, Government, Goals
“The goal is understanding. To persuade someone, to motivate someone, to sell someone, you really need to understand that person.”
Dan Kennedy, Business, Goals
“The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Power
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals
“You must determine where you are going in your life, because you cannot get there unless you move in that direction. Random wandering will not move you forward. It will instead disappoint and frustrate you and make you anxious and unhappy and hard to get along with (and then resentful, and then vengeful, and then worse).”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Happiness
“Face the demands of life voluntarily. Respond to a challenge, instead of bracing for catastrophe.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals
“Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities. Strengthen the individual. Start with yourself. Take care with yourself. Define who you are. Refine your personality. Choose your destination and articulate your Being. As the great nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche so brilliantly noted, ‘He whose life has a why can bear almost any how.’”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals, Power
“Don’t be a slave to stupid rules.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals
“To learn is to die voluntarily and be born again, in great ways and small.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals
“Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”
Jordan Peterson, Goals
“You need to consider the future And think, ‘What might my life look like if I were caring for myself properly?’”
Jordan Peterson, Goals, Life
“So, listen, to yourself and to those with whom you are speaking. Your wisdom then consists not of the knowledge you already have, but the continual search for knowledge, which is the highest form of wisdom.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth. That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals, Life
“Always place your becoming above your current being.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals
“Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals
“You should take care of, help, and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help, and be good to someone you loved and valued.”
Jordan Peterson, Goals, Love
“The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”
Jordan Peterson, Life, Goals
“I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done.”
David Goggins, Goals
“It’s time to go to war with yourself.”
David Goggins, Goals, Time
“The pain that you are willing to endure is measured by how bad you want it.”
David Goggins, Goals
“We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
David Goggins, Goals
“There is no better way to grow as a person than to do everyday something you hate.”
David Goggins, Goals
“Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.”
David Goggins, Goals
“Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!”
David Goggins, Goals
“Refused to compromise who I was to conform to their unwritten rules.”
David Goggins, Goals
“Analyze your schedule, kill your empty habits, burn out the bullshit, and see what’s left.”
David Goggins, Goals
“Tell yourself the truth! That you’ve wasted enough time, and that you have other dreams that will take courage to realize…”
David Goggins, Truth, Time, Goals, Courage
“I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what."
David Goggins, Goals, Success
“Never let people who choose the path of least resistance steer you away from your chosen path of most resistance.”
David Goggins, Goals
“There is no more time to waste. Hours and days evaporate like creeks in the desert. That’s why it’s okay to be cruel to yourself as long as you realize you’re doing it to become better.”
David Goggins, Goals, Time
“If you want to get better, do the things that no-one else wants to do. Do the things that no-one is even thinking about doing.”
David Goggins, Goals
“If you’re willing to suffer, and I mean suffer, your brain and body once connected together, can do anything.”
David Goggins, Goals
“You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.”
David Goggins, Goals
“If you want to be one of the few to defy those trends in our ever-softening society, you will have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity, which requires an open mind.”
David Goggins, Goals, Society
“Comfort zones: If you live in one too long… that becomes your norm. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.”
David Goggins, Life, Goals
“We live in an external world. Everything, you have to see it, touch it. If you can for the rest of your life, live inside yourself – to find greatness, you have to go inside.”
David Goggins, Life, Success, Goals
“Greatness pulls mediocrity into the mud. Get out there and get after it.”
David Goggins, Success, Goals
“Everybody wants a quick fix. You may get results, but they won’t be permanent. The permanent results come from you having to suffer.”
David Goggins, Goals
“A warrior is a guy that goes, I’m here again today. I’ll be here again tomorrow and the next day.’ It’s a person who puts no limit on what’s possible.”
David Goggins, Goals
“You have to build calluses on your brain just like how you build calluses on your hands. Callus your mind through pain and suffering.”
David Goggins, Goals
“Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother.”
Katharine Hepburn, Goals
“Listen to the Song of Life.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Goals, Music
“Live dangerously. There's a lot to be said for sinning.”
Katharine Hepburn, Life, Goals, Belief
“Be yourself, it's a tough act to follow.”
Katharine Hepburn, Goals
“I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you&apps;re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.”
Katharine Hepburn, Belief, Goals
“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”
Katharine Hepburn, Belief, Goals
“Never complain. Never explain.”
Katharine Hepburn, Goals
“I do have reasons for hope: our clever brains, the resilience of nature, the indomitable human spirit, and above all, the commitment of young people when they’re empowered to take action.”
Jane Goodall, Hope, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you.”
Jane Goodall, Life, Goals
“Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.”
Jane Goodall, Love, Goals
“There is still so much in the world worth fighting for. So much that is beautiful, so many wonderful people working to reverse the harm, to help alleviate the suffering. And so many young people dedicated to making this a better world. All conspiring to inspire us and to give us hope that it is not too late to turn things around, if we all do our part.”
Jane Goodall, Hope, Society, Goals
“My job is to collect stories of hope — because there's so much going on that's awful. Animals becoming extinct, forests disappearing, people suffering tremendously. If this is the only aspect that gets out to the general public, they think there's not much we can do and they do nothing. And so these stories that show what can be done I think are tremendously important.”
— In an interview with Ecosia
Jane Goodall, Work, Hope, Nature, Goals
“We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place ― or not to bother.”
Jane Goodall, Goals
“We can work together to make the world a better place. Perhaps there can be peace one day if we learn from our past and commit to compassionate action for our futures.”
- Reflecting on the 20th anniversary of 9/11
Jane Goodall, Goals
“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”
Jane Goodall, Goals
“Let us develop respect for all living things.”
Jane Goodall, Goals
“I’ve spent my life speaking out on behalf of animals. And there is one issue that stands out uniquely as one of the worst threats to their survival. The illegal wildlife trade… without doing something today, we could face a world in which thousands and thousands of species go silent. Never to return. But there is something we can do today, and it will take all of us working together to make it possible.”
Jane Goodall, Nature, Goals
“In order to slow down climate change, we must solve four seemingly unsolvable problems. We must eliminate poverty. We must change the unsustainable lifestyles of so many of us. We must abolish corruption. And we must think about our growing human population… But I believe we have a window of time to have an impact.”
- For TIME
Jane Goodall, Nature, Goals
“Fortunately, nature is amazingly resilient: places we have destroyed, given time and help, can once again support life, and endangered species can be given a second chance. And there is a growing number of people, especially young people, who are aware of these problems and are fighting for the survival of our only home, Planet Earth. We must all join that fight before it is too late.”
Jane Goodall, Nature, Society, Goals
“When I was a little girl, I used to dream as a man, because I wanted to do things that women didn’t do back then such as traveling to Africa, living with wild animals and writing books. I didn’t have any female explorers or scientists to look up to but I was inspired by Dr. Dolittle, Tarzan and Mowgli in The Jungle Book — all male characters. It was only my mother who supported my dream: ‘You’ll have to work hard, take advantage of opportunities and never give up,’ she’d tell me. I’ve shared that message with young people around the world, and so many have thanked me, and said, ‘You taught me that because you did it, I can do it too.’”
- For TIME
Jane Goodall, Goals
“The advice I give to young people today is exactly what my mother gave to me when I was 10 and I said I’m going to grow up go to Africa, live with wild animals and write books about them. Everybody laughed. How could I do that? We didn’t have any money. World war II was raging. I was just a girl. But my mother always said, ‘If you really want something, you’re going to have to work hard, you’ll have to take advantage of every opportunity but don’t give up.’ I’ve taken that message to young people…all around the world.
Jane Goodall, Goals, Opportunities
“We need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world’s people while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources.”
Jane Goodall, Goals
“We can have a world of peace. We can move toward a world where we live in harmony with nature. Where we live in harmony with each other. No matter what nation we come from. No matter what our religion. No matter what our culture. This is where we’re moving towards.”
- Peace Day 2018 message
Jane Goodall, Goals
“Women dream till they have no longer the strength to dream; those dreams against which they so struggle, so honestly, vigorously, and conscientiously, and so in vain, yet which are their.”
Florence Nightingale, Sex, Goals
“I stand at the altar of the murdered men, and, while I live, I fight their cause.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“I did not think of going to give myself a position, but for the sake of common humanity.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“But to live your life you must discipline it.”
Florence Nightingale, Life, Goals
“Patriotism is not enough, there must be no hatred or bitterness for anyone.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“You ask me why I do not write something…. I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. Rather, ten times, die in the surf heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“Ignite the mind’s spark to rise the sun in you.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“Never give nor take an excuse.”
Florence Nightingale, Goals
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.”
Anne Frank, Goals
“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”
Anne Frank, Goals, Justice, Kindness
“I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!”
Anne Frank, Strength, Goals, Life
“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.”
Anne Frank, Goals
“Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.”
Anne Frank, Belief, Goals
“How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.”
Anne Frank, Goals
“I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”
Anne Frank, Goals, Belief, Love, Happiness, Strength, Courage
“Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite independent of anyone.”
Anne Frank, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom, Freedom
“We all live with the objective of being happy.”
Anne Frank, Happiness, Goals
“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”
Anne Frank, Goals
“I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!”
Anne Frank, Goals, Belief
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Anne Frank, Goals
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank, Life, Goals
“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”
Helen Keller, Goals
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
Helen Keller, Love, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
Helen Keller, Life, Goals
“For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.”
Helen Keller, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
Helen Keller, Goals
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller, Happiness, Goals
“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”
Helen Keller, Goals
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”
Helen Keller, Goals
"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."
Helen Keller, Goals
"The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision."
Helen Keller, Goals
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. It's what the sunflowers do.”
Helen Keller, Goals
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller, Life, Goals, Success
"I’ll be bad; but anyway not a liar, a cheat."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Goals
"A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’"
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Goals
"I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself."
Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy), Life, Goals
"It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Success
"In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love."
Warren Buffet, Business, Goals, Success
"You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can’t let people set your agenda in life."
Warren Buffet, Life, Time, Goals
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Life
"I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute."
Warren Buffet, Goals
"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Life
"…not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives."
Warren Buffet, Goals, Life, Wealth
"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."
Walt Whitman, Life, Goals, Nature
"Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes."
Walt Whitman, Goals, Nature
"Do anything, but let it produce joy."
Walt Whitman, Happiness, Goals
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"I exist as I am, that is enough. If no other in the world be aware I sit content. And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself. And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"Happiness, not in another place but this place… not for another hour, but this hour."
Walt Whitman, Happiness, Goals
"Re-examine all that you have been told… dismiss that which insults your soul."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me."
Walt Whitman, Goals, Life
"I am to wait. I do not doubt I am to meet you again. I am to see to it that I do not lose you."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"Be curious, not judgmental."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"Long enough have you dream’d contemptible dreams. Now I wash the gum from your eyes. You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life."
Walt Whitman, Goals, Life
"You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, not look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books. You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me. You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"Not I nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land."
Walt Whitman, Goals
"I think it’s important to hold a mirror up to society and yourself."
Ricky Gervais, Goals, Society
"We only do what we think is good and what we’re happy with. I’d rather have something that’s completely mine fail than something succeed that I’m not proud of."
Ricky Gervais, Goals
"Everything I do is somehow rooted in humanity. It’s always about people; it’s always about ego. It’s always about desperation. It’s quite existential. You know, ‘Am I leading a good life?’ That might be because I’m an atheist, and I think this is all we’ve got, so you better be nice. And have fun."
Ricky Gervais, Goals, Belief
"I think doing something creative is the most important thing to me, and I think it’s probably just good for the soul for anyone, whatever it is. You don’t have to be a film director – you can do gardening or something – but I think everyone needs to create something."
Ricky Gervais, Goals
"The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"You have to be willing to get happy about nothing."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Happiness
"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. Being the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place is worth it because something interesting always happens."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Life
"Everybody must have a fantasy."
Andy Warhol, Goals
"I think everybody should be nice to everybody."
Andy Warhol, Goals, Kindness
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."
Andy Warhol, Goals
"I live for my sons. I would be lost without them."
Princess Diana, Goals, Life
"I will fight for my children on any level so they can reach their potential."
Princess Diana, Goals
"I felt compelled to perform. Well, when I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them."
Princess Diana, Goals
"It’s vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It’s what I try and do."
Princess Diana, Government, Goals
"I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that."
Princess Diana, Love, Happiness, Goals
"I want to do, not just to be."
Princess Diana, Goals
"I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed."
Princess Diana, Goals
"I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Only do what your heart tells you."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Goals, Life
"Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."
Princess Diana, Goals, Happiness
"I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am."
Princess Diana, Goals, Freedom, Society
"Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny."
Princess Diana, Happiness, Goals, Life
"I want my boys to have an understanding of people’s emotions, their insecurities, people’s distress, and their hopes and dreams."
Princess Diana, Goals
"Mrs. Gump: You do your very best now, Forrest?
Young Forrest: I sure will, Momma."
Forrest Gump, Goals
"Now you wouldn’t believe me if I told you, but I could run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was goin’ somewhere, I was runnin’!" – Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Goals
"He was from a long great military tradition. Somebody from his family had fought and died in every single American war. I guess you could say he had a lot to live up to.”– Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Goals
"When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.”- Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Goals
"Don’t ever let anybody tell you they’re better than you.” –Mrs. Gump
Forrest Gump, Life, Goals
"Run, Forrest, Run!"- Jenny Curran
Forrest Gump, Goals
"Aren't I going to be me?"- Jenny Curran
Forrest Gump, Goals
"Forrest Gump: [running] I had run for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours. [he stops and turns around]
Young Man Running: Quiet, quiet! He's gonna say something!
Forrest Gump: I'm pretty tired... I think I'll go home now".
Forrest Gump, Goals
"That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run across the great state of Alabama. And that's what I did. I ran clear across Alabama. For no particular reason I just kept on going. I ran clear to the ocean. And when I got there, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well turn around, just keep on going. When I got to another ocean, I figured, since I'd gone this far, I might as well just turn back, keep right on going." -Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, Goals
"We share a common interest, survival, and it cannot be pursued in isolation from others simply because their differences make us uncomfortable."
Audre Lorde, Goals, Society
"What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order for us to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness."
Audre Lorde, Goals
"What we cannot imagine cannot come into being."
bell hooks, Goals
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."
bell hooks, Goals
"To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality."
bell hooks, Goals
"True resistance begins with people confronting pain...and wanting to do something to change it."
bell hooks, Goals
"I say dance, they say ‘How high?'"
Michael Scott, Society, Goals
"I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."
James Baldwin, Goals
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin, Goals
"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
James Baldwin, Goals
"The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it."
James Baldwin, Goals
"Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home."
James Baldwin, Goals
"True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life."
James Baldwin, Life, Love, Goals
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Goals
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Goals
"Renew thyself completely each day."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
Henry David Thoreau, Society, Goals
"Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be."
Henry David Thoreau, Society, Goals
"You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."
Henry David Thoreau, Friendship, Hope, Goals
"If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals, Society
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals, Love
"It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?"
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"It is never too late to give up your prejudices."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Henry David Thoreau, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
Henry David Thoreau, Life, Goals
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Never look back unless you are planning to go that way."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."
Henry David Thoreau, Goals
"I want a clean cup,′ interrupted the Hatter: `let’s all move one place on."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"If there’s no meaning in it,” said the King, “that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn’t try to find any."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Problems
"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
“—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.
“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"Let your need guide your behavior."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Life
"Never let anyone drive you crazy; it is nearby anyway and the walk is good for you."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Life
"And no scheme of ours can raise any sort of smile."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals, Happiness
"You may have noticed, I’m not all there myself."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"And the moral of that is—‘Be what you would seem to be’—or, if you’d like it put more simply—‘Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.’"
Alice in Wonderland, Life, Goals
"I don’t see how he can ever finish, if he doesn’t begin."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"Only a few find the way, some don’t recognize it when they do – some… don’t ever want to."
Alice in Wonderland, Goals
"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)"
Taylor Swift, Goals
"If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"I've wanted one thing for my whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"Just be yourself, there is no one better."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."
Taylor Swift, Goals
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no-how. I can't seem to get over that line."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"I go to prepare a place for you."
Harriet Tubman, Goals
"I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them."
Harriet Tubman, Freedom, Goals
"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."
Frederick Douglass, Goals
"The work of woman is not to lessen the severity or the certainty of the penalty for the violation of the moral law, but to prevent this violation by the removal of the causes which lead to it."
Susan B Anthony, Goals
"If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals."
Susan B Anthony, Goals
"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."
Susan B Anthony, Goals
"I have given my life and all I am to it, and now I want my last act to be to give it all I have, to the last cent."
Susan B Anthony, Goals
"Our Job is not to make young women grateful. It is to make the ungrateful so they keep going. Gratitude never radicalized anybody."
Susan B Anthony, Goals
"This is what is intended by education as a help to life; an education from birth that brings about a revolution: a revolution that eliminates every violence, a revolution in which everyone will be attracted towards a common center. Mothers, fathers, statesmen all will be centered upon respecting and aiding this delicate construction which is carried on in psychic mystery following the guide of an inner teacher. This is the new shining hope for humanity. It is not so much a reconstruction, as an aid to the construction carried out by the human soul as it is meant to be, developed in all the immense potentialities with which the new-born child is endowed."
Maria Montessori, Goals, Society
"To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely."
Maria Montessori, Goals, Freedom
"the fundamental phrase which sums up Séguin's whole method,—"to lead the child, as it were, by the hand, from the education of the muscular system, to that of the nervous system, and of the senses." It was thus that Séguin taught the idiots how to walk, how to maintain their equilibrium in the most difficult movements of the body—such as going up stairs, jumping, etc., and finally, to feel, beginning the education of the muscular sensations by touching, and reading the difference of temperature, and ending with the education of the particular senses."
Maria Montessori, Work, Goals
"We serve the future by protecting the present."
Maria Montessori, Goals
"Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them."
Maria Montessori, Goals
"Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life."
Maria Montessori, Goals, Life
"Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed."
Maria Montessori, Goals, Success
"Be brave, be curious, be determined, overcome the odds. It can be done."
Stephen Hawking, Goals
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
Stephen Hawking, Goals
"It matters if you just don't give up."
Stephen Hawking, Goals
"Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in."
Stephen Hawking, Intelligence/Wisdom, Goals
"My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
Stephen Hawking, Goals
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
Stephen Hawking, Life, Goals, Success
"The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes."
Tesla, Goals
"In the broadest context, the goal is to seek enlightenment – however you define it."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"The greatest thing is when you do put your heart and soul into something over an extended period of time, and it is worth it."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Love
"If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"I think the things you most regret in life are things you didn’t do. What you really regret was never asking that girl to dance."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Life
"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next."
Steve Jobs, Success, Goals
"We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?"
Steve Jobs, Goals
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"I always advise people – Don’t wait! Do something when you are young, when you have nothing to lose, and keep that in mind."
Steve Jobs, Goals, Time
"If you’re gonna make connections that are innovative, you have to not have the same bag of experience as everyone else does."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"You get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
Steve Jobs, Courage, Goals
"Things don’t have to change the world to be important."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"I’m actually as proud of many of the things we haven’t done as the things we have done."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"You can build your own things that other people can use. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"If today were the last day of your life, would you want to do what you are about to do today?"
Steve Jobs, Goals
"When you need a miracle, be miracle."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them."
Steve Jobs, Technology, Goals
"Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves."
Steve Jobs, Business, Goals
"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Steve Jobs, Goals
"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations."
Steve Jobs, Mistakes, Goals
"Let’s go invent tomorrow rather than worrying about what happened yesterday."
Steve Jobs, Time, Goals
"I think the things you regret most in life are the things you didn’t do."
Steve Jobs, Life, Goals
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."
Steve Jobs, Time, Goals
"Liberty Valance is a cancer on this fair town. He's the cancer and I'm the, uh...what cures cancer?"
John Wayne, Goals
"A man oughta do what he thinks is best."
John Wayne, Goals
"All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him."
John Wayne, Goals
"I would like to be remembered, well ... the Mexicans have a phrase, "Feo fuerte y formal". Which means he was ugly, strong and had dignity."
John Wayne, Goals
"A goal, A love and A dream give you total control over your body and your life."
John Wayne, Life, Love, Goals
"A man's got to do what a man's got to do."
John Wayne, Goals
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them."
John Wayne, Goals
"Some people have told me that I am a rare bird in the blue sky of dreamers."
John Lewis, Goals
"Faith, to me, is knowing in the solid core of your soul that the work is already done, even as an idea is being conceived in your mind. It is being as sure as you are about your dreams as you are about anything you know as a hard fact."
John Lewis, Goals
"He graduated from Morehouse at nineteen, and by the time he was twenty-three years old he held a doctorate in divinity from Boston College and a degree in divinity from Crozer Theological Seminary. He never forgot his purpose or his people in his work, and he used the mandates of graduate research to begin developing his own brand of social gospel. In his quest, he made it a point to study the work of all the major theologians and philosophers who might have had any bearing on his thesis. He also branched out beyond his comfort zone, as any credible scholar would, to study influential ideas of the time that were antithetical to his beliefs, like the work of Marx, Lenin, and Nietzsche. He examined every possible angle to find the theological answers to the questions he was asking, and he emerged in his study as a notable student and a compelling scholar."
John Lewis, Goals
"What can you do to get into good trouble? There is a light inside of you that will turn on when you get into good trouble. You will feel emboldened and freed. You will realize that unjust laws cannot stop you. These laws cannot stop the truth that is in your heart and soul."
John Lewis, Goals
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."
John Lewis, Goals, Truth, Mistakes
"Whatever good work you do, whatever powerful, profound work—do it because it’s right or because it’s necessary. Do it to make change for the better. Do it because you know you must. Don’t do it for credit."
John Lewis, Goals, Work
"It is the responsibility, yet the individual choice, of each of us to use the light we have to dispel the work of darkness, because if we do not, then the power of falsehood rises."
John Lewis, Goals
"When you pray, move your feet."
John Lewis, Goals
"It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
John Lewis, Goals
"There’s a quote of Dr. King’s that I use from time to time, which I rephrase: “To be bold, to be creative, to never give up, and never to hate—for hate is too big a burden to bear. I have decided to love."
John Lewis, Goals, Love
"Malcolm (X) talked about the need to shift our focus from race to class, both among one another and between ourselves and the white community. He said he believed that was the root of our problems, not just in America, but all over the world. Malcolm was saying, in effect, that it is a struggle for the poor -- for those who have been left out and left behind -- and that it transcends race."
John Lewis, Goals
"By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them back together in the image of God and democracy."
John Lewis, Goals
"Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn't know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen.
Use the words of the movement to pace yourself. We used to say that ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world."
John Lewis, Goals
"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America."
John Lewis, Goals, Anger and Fighting
"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness."
John Muir, Goals, Nature
"Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress..."
John Muir, Goals
"How long should you try? Until."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot."
Jim Rohn, Goals, Intelligence/Wisdom
"The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Each of us has two distinct choices to make about what we will do with our lives. The first choice we can make is to be less than we have the capacity to be. To earn less. To have less. To read less and think less. To try less and discipline ourselves less. These are the choices that lead to an empty life. These are the choices that, once made, lead to a life of constant apprehension instead of a life of wondrous anticipation And the second choice? To do it all! To become all that we can possibly be. To read every book that we possibly can. To earn as much as we possibly can. To give and share as much as we possibly can. To strive and produce and accomplish as much as we possibly can."
Jim Rohn, Life, Goals
"Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune."
Jim Rohn, Goals, Work
"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."
Jim Rohn, Goals, Work
"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want."
Jim Rohn, Happiness, Wealth, Goals
"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
Jim Rohn, Goals, Success
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom."
Jim Rohn, Goals
"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Planning
"If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Life
"The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Don’t become a wandering generality. Be a meaningful specific."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Go as far as you can see and you will see further."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Life
"Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little."
Zig Ziglar, Mistakes, Goals
"If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Make today worth remembering."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Time
"You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Success
"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."
Zig Ziglar, Goals
"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."
Zig Ziglar, Goals, Time
"There comes a time when you have to drop your burdens in order to fight for yourself and your dreams."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"Go after what you want as if your life depended on it. Because it Does!"
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"No one will take better care of your dream than you."
Les Brown, Goals
"No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it."
Les Brown, Goals
"If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don’t do it."
Les Brown, Goals, Success
"Take action in order to move toward your goals."
Les Brown, Goals
"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."
Les Brown, Goals, Success
"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."
Les Brown, Goals
"Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases. Fear kills dreams and hope."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"Don’t underestimate yourself. You are capable of more than you can ever imagine."
Les Brown, Goals
"Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them."
Les Brown, Goals
"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."
Les Brown, Goals
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way."
Les Brown, Goals
"The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience."
Les Brown, Life, Goals
"It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit."
Les Brown, Goals
"I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs."
Les Brown, Goals
"Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll land in the stars."
Les Brown, Goals
"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory."
Les Brown, Goals
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
Les Brown, Goals
"Most people fail in life not because they aim too high and miss, but because they aim too low and hit."
Les Brown, Life, Success, Goals
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream."
Les Brown, Courage, Goals
"[I want to be remembered as] someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability. And to help repair tears in her society, to make things a little better through the use of whatever ability she has. To do something, as my colleague David Souter would say, outside myself. ‘Cause I’ve gotten much more satisfaction for the things that I’ve done for which I was not paid."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Goals
"spent no time fretting, and found a way to do what I thought important to get done."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Goals, Time
"How to be Like RBG: Work for what you believe in, but pick your battles, and don’t burn your bridges. Don’t be afraid to take charge, think about what you want, then do the work, but then enjoy what makes you happy, bring along your crew, have a sense of humor."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Goals
"Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true."
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Intelligence/Wisdom, Life, Goals
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Goals
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Strength, Courage, Goals
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
Eleanor Roosevelt, Goals
"The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it."
Ernest Hemingway, Goals
"My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
Ernest Hemingway, Goals
"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears."
Nelson Mandela, Goals
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
Nelson Mandela, Goals
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
Nelson Mandela, Goals
"Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?"
Nelson Mandela, Goals
"It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success."
Nelson Mandela, Goals, Success
"Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast...and one day you will build something that endures: something worthy of your potential."
Epictetus, Goals
"You become what you give your attention to."
Epictetus, Goals
"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary.
From now on, then, resolve to live as a grown-up who is making progress, and make whatever you think best a law that you never set aside. And whenever you encounter anything that is difficult or pleasurable, or highly or lowly regarded, remember that the contest is now: you are at the Olympic Games, you cannot wait any longer, and that your progress is wrecked or preserved by a single day and a single event. That is how Socrates fulfilled himself by attending to nothing except reason in everything he encountered. And you, although you are not yet a Socrates, should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates."
Epictetus, Goals
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
Epictetus, Goals
"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach."
Seneca, Goals
"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."
Seneca, Goals
"Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."
Seneca, Life, Goals
"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."
Seneca, Goals
"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
Seneca, Goals
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine."
Bruce Lee, Goals
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Goals
"To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Goals
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Goals
"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
FDR- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Goals
"To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."
George Washington, Goals, Art, Intelligence/Wisdom
"If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
George Washington, Goals, Anger and Fighting
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Thomas Jefferson, Goals
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
Thomas Jefferson, Goals
"If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we'd be nothing left but the dreams we made."
Selena Gomez, Goals
"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals, Courage, Life
"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals, Anger and Fighting
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. "
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Government, Goals
"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
JFK- John F. Kennedy, Goals
"America is too great for small dreams."
Ronald Reagan, Goals
"When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat."
Ronald Reagan, Goals
"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."
Teddy Roosevelt, Goals
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Teddy Roosevelt, Goals
"My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman."
Audrey Hepburn, Goals
"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."
Audrey Hepburn, Goals
"You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."
Audrey Hepburn, Goals
"I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself."
Audrey Hepburn, Goals
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
Audrey Hepburn, Goals
"The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"The really important thing is not to live, but to live well. And to live well meant, along with more enjoyable things in life, to live according to your principles."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of -- for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all."
Socrates, Goals
"Be as you wish to seem."
Socrates, Goals
"We cannot live better than in seeking to become better."
Socrates, Life, Goals
"All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established."
Aristotle, Goals
"Anything’s possible, almost."
Marilyn Monroe, Goals
"Above all, I want to be treated as a human being."
Marilyn Monroe, Goals
"We are all stars but we must learn how to shine."
Marilyn Monroe, Goals
"I always get to where I’m going by walking away from where I have been."
Winnie the Pooh, Goals
"What I like best is just doing nothing."
Winnie the Pooh, Goals
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
Winnie the Pooh, Goals
"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."
Rumi, Goals
"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
Rumi, Goals
"What you seek is seeking you."
Rumi, Goals
"Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.."
Bob Marley, Goals
"Seek only light and freedom and do not immerse yourself too deeply in the worldly mire."
Van Gogh, Goals
"I haven’t got it yet, but I’m hunting it and fighting for it, I want something serious, something fresh—something with soul in it! Onward, onward."
Van Gogh, Goals
"I’ll start with small things."
Van Gogh, Goals
"So let us go forward, quietly, each on his own path, forever making for the light."
Van Gogh, Goals
"But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more."
Van Gogh, Love, Goals
"One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning."
Van Gogh, Goals
"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague."
Van Gogh, Goals
"I now consider myself to be at the beginning of the beginning of making something serious."
Van Gogh, Goals
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
Van Gogh, Goals
"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."
Van Gogh, Goals
"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
Martin Luther King Jr., Goals
"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."
Martin Luther King Jr., Goals
"We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
Martin Luther King Jr., Goals
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
Martin Luther King Jr., Goals
"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."
Abraham Lincoln, Goals
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
Abraham Lincoln, Goals
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
Abraham Lincoln, Goals
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
Abraham Lincoln, Goals
"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."
Abraham Lincoln, Goals
"Whatever you are, be a good one."
Abraham Lincoln, Goals
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."
Gandhi, Goals
"You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results."
Gandhi, Goals
"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
Gandhi, Goals
"My Life is My Message."
Gandhi, Goals
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Gandhi, Goals
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Gandhi, Goals
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
Winston Churchill, Goals
"It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required."
Winston Churchill, Goals
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Winston Churchill, Goals
"Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself."
Aesop, Goals
"Little by little does the trick."
Aesop, Goals
"Get a good idea, and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done, and done right."
Walt Disney, Goals
"I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things."
Walt Disney, Success, Goals
"Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job."
Walt Disney, Happiness, Life, Work, Goals
"Whatever you do, do it well."
Walt Disney, Goals
"We share, to a large extent, one another’s fate. We help create those circumstances which favor or challenge us in meeting our objectives and realizing our dreams."
Walt Disney, Goals
"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare."
Walt Disney, Goals
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
Walt Disney, Goals
"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever."
Walt Disney, Goals, Happiness
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney, Goals, Happiness
"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
Walt Disney, Goals, Courage
"Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are."
Tim Burton, Goals
"Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?"
Tim Burton, Goals
"The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it."
Peter Drucker, Goals
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde, Goals
"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Goals
"Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances."
Napoleon Bonaparte, Goals
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark."
Michelangelo, Goals
"...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."
Karl Marx, Goals
"If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got."
Henry Ford, Goals
"Vision without execution is just hallucination."
Henry Ford, Goals
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."
Henry Ford, Goals
"Many people are obstinate about the path once it is taken, few people about the destination."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Goals
"Forgetting our intentions is the most frequent of all acts of stupidity."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Goals
"The big thing is that you know what you want."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."
Earl Nightingale, Goals
"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy."
Dale Carnegie , Goals
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
Dale Carnegie , Goals
"Ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
Dale Carnegie , Goals
"A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds."
Benjamin Franklin, Goals
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin, Goals
"Never confuse motion with action."
Benjamin Franklin, Goals
"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin, Goals
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
Benjamin Franklin, Goals
"You never fail until you stop trying."
Albert Einstein, Goals
"Ponder and deliberate before you make a move."
Sun Tzu, Goals
"Plan for what it is difficult while it is easy, do what is great while it is small."
Sun Tzu, Goals
"Never venture, never win!"
Sun Tzu, Goals
"If the mind is willing, the flesh could go on and on without many things."
Sun Tzu, Goals
"A person who chases two rabbits catches neither."
Confucius, Wealth, Goals
"The journey with 1000 miles begins with one step."
Confucius, Goals
"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
Confucius, Goals
"Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
Confucius, Goals
"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps."
Confucius, Goals
"Think of tomorrow, the past can’t be mended."
Confucius, Goals
"Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing."
Confucius, Goals, Power
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius, Goals
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius, Goals
"He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream."
Lao Tzu, Goals
"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."