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Quotes About Goal

Sometimes sacrifice was necessary in pursuit of a worthy goal.
~ Jude Watson
Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.
~ Julia Cameron
all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There things are well enough, but all you need is to know what you want, and to want it badly enough so that it will stay in your thoughts.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
If you wanted something, you planned for it, worked for it, and made it happen.
~ Wallace Stegner
Ambition is a path, not a destination, and it is essentially the same path for everybody. No matter what the goal is, the path leads through Pilgrim's Progress regions of motivation, hard work, persistence, stubbornness, and resilience under disappointment. Unconsidered, merely indulged, ambition becomes a vice; it can turn a man into a machine that knows nothing but how to run. Considered, it can be something else - pathway to the stars, maybe.
~ Wallace Stegner
Having lost sight of our objectives, we redoubled our efforts.
~ Walt Kelly
You long for a windfall that will let you quit and pursue your great hobby
~ Walter Kirn
In pursuing the goal of development, one must start with the producers and move on from there to see whether the products of their labor are being rationally utilized to bring greater independence and well-being to the nation. (23)
~ Walter Rodney
Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldnt be our countrys primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
~ Warren Edward Buffett
What's a boy-friendly way for a nonacademically inclined boy to use his mind? Having a concrete goal. If a boy has a concrete goal of being a welder, that catalyzes motivation to study the physics and chemistry necessary to become a high-paid welder.
~ Warren Farrell
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. —Jim Rohn
~ Warren Greshes
Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes.
~ Washington Irving
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
~ Washington Irving
I would set my course that instant not for the nearest but the farthest star.
~ Webb Chiles
For success there is no ladder or elevator, if you want to reach the top, you have to climb."
~ Wesley D'Amico
Hit the target or spend a lifetime wasting time training."
~ Wesley D'Amico
The landing is more important than the flight.
~ Wesley D'Amico
There is a price to pay for the dream that the other has dedicated himself to creating."
~ Wesley D'Amico
A Hun without a purpose will never know when he has achieved it.
~ Wess Roberts
your dream is, you deserve to realize it.
~ Wil Wheaton
From the perspective of noise reduction, a singular decision is a recurrent decision that happens only once. Whether you make a decision only once or a hundred times, your goal should be to make it in a way that reduces both bias and noise. And practices that reduce error should be just as effective in your one-of-a-kind decisions as in your repeated ones.
~ Daniel Kahneman
Loss aversion refers to the relative strength of two motives: we are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains. A reference point is sometimes the status quo, but it can also be a goal in the future: not achieving a goal is a loss, exceeding the goal is a gain. As we might expect from negativity dominance, the two motives are not equally powerful. The aversion to the failure of not reaching the goal is much stronger than the desire to exceed it.
~ Daniel Kahneman
and want is difficult at the best of times, and especially
~ Daniel Kahneman