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Quotes About Goal

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
~ George Eliot
Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
~ Ernest Holmes
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.
~ Helen Keller
Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
~ Euripides
Few begin with anything like a clear view of what they want to do, and the fortune they seek may come in a very different form from that which they have kept in view.
~ The Independent
Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
~ Marcia Wieder
This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark!
~ Bible
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
~ Edmund Burke
You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
~ Billy Wilder
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
~ Benjamin Mays
Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
~ C. H. Parkhurst
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.
~ Harry Kemp
He is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
~ R. Briffault
To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
~ Marcus Aurelius
In everything one must consider the end.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
~ Andre Gide
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.
~ Michel de Montaigne
He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.
~ Louis L'Amour
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
~ Scott Reed
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
~ Mae West
Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.
~ Anonymous