Quotes About Goal

In our normal lives, many of us try to seek relief from distraction simply by crashing—we try to recover from a day of overload by collapsing in front of the TV. But if you only break away from distraction into rest—if you don't replace it with a positive goal you are striving toward—you will always be pulled back to distraction sooner or later. The more powerful path out of distraction is to find your flow.

Silicon Valley sells itself by articulating "a big, lofty goal—connecting everyone in the world, or whatever it is. But when you're actually doing the day-to-day work, it's about increasing user numbers.

But if you only break away from distraction into rest—if you don't replace it with a positive goal you are striving toward—you will always be pulled back to distraction sooner or later. The more powerful path out of distraction is to find your flow.

The alternative to cruel optimism - telling people a simplistic story that sets them up to fail - isn't pessimism, the idea that you can't change anything. It's authentic optimism. This is where you honestly acknowledge the barriers that stand in the way of your goal and establish a plan to work together with other people to dismantle those barriers, step by step.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few priveledged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

Listen to that lovely music, Better than mythology! Your gods, elderly and antique, Give them up, they're now passé. Those old tales have lost all meaning, We aim at a higher goal: From the soul must come the feeling That can move another's soul.

Be clear on where you are and where you want to go and you will get there. It can be the best year of your life.

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

Penetration of our mind is our goal, but in the beginning to set things in motion, there is no substitute for sweat.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for!

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.

The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

He carefully studies the position that he intends to conquer.

You need to dream a bigger dream for yourself. That is the lesson. Hold the highest vision possible for your life and it can come true.

If you want something hard enough, whether it be a material possession or just something in your life, if you work hard enough there is absolutely no reason why you can't obtain it.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.

Life is too short for aught but high endeavor.

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

Now that I know where this life is going, it's time to decide how I'll get there.

Set a master goal for your running and for your life...