Quotes About Goals

The road to success doesn't allow detours

Make time to fulfill your desired dreams.

The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.

Entrepreneurship isn't about luck, it's about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.

Don't waste your time chasing things that will never be beneficial to your future.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement.

Instead of thinking about where you are think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march towards certain goals.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

We had two goals...One was to cherish every moment together, cherish the journey because the journey allows you to learn and grow. The other was to win a gold medal.

Don't make hope your business plan. —MARY CHRISTENSEN

Problems make us focus our energy, said Merlin. They can help us think more sharply and act more swiftly. Never wish for all your problems to disappear. Problems can help you achieve your goals.

Most people overestimate what they can do in a day, and underestimate what they can do in a month. We overestimate what we can do in a year, and underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade. by Matthew Kelly from the book The Long View

The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of selfish and individual goals. Disagreements then become a battle between conflicting interests, rather than a search for a mutually satisfying resolution.

Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy—a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does not work for your own destruction. Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.

A man's "interests" depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his desires depend on his values—and, for a rational man, his values depend on the judgment of his mind.

In the normal conditions of existence, man has to choose his goals, project them in time, pursue them and achieve them by his own effort. He cannot do it if his goals are at the mercy of and must be sacrificed to any misfortune happening to others. He cannot live his life by the guidance of rules applicable only to conditions under which human survival is impossible.

Greatness is achieved by the productive effort of a man's mind in the pursuit of clearly defined, rational goals. But a delusion of grandeur can be served only by the switching, undefinable chimera of a public monument—which is presented as a munificent gift to the victims whose forced labor or extorted money had paid for it—which is dedicated to the service of all and none, owned by all and none, gaped at by all and enjoyed by none.

La felicidad sólo es posible al hombre racional, al hombre que sólo desea objetivos racionales, busca valores racionales y halla su goce en la ejecución de actos racionales.

ella pregunto: -Francisco, ¿Cuál es el tipo más depravado que existe?. -El hombre que carece de propósitos.

He does not regard "because I want it" or "because I feel like it" as a sufficient cause and validation of his actions. He chooses and/or identifies his desires by a process of reason, and he does not act to achieve a desire until and unless he is able rationally to validate it in the full context of his knowledge and of his other values and goals. He does not act until he is able to say: "I want it because it is right.

An irrational society is a society of moral cowards- of men paralyzed by the loss of moral standards , principles, and goals

El hombre existe para la consecución de sus deseos.