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- Robert Browning
Aspire, break bounds. Endeavor to be good, and better still, best.
- Thomas A. Kempis
A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!
- Mike Ditka (1939-) American, Football Coach, Chicago Bears
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it. I think if you are determined enough and willing to pay the price, you can get it done.
- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) Roman Emperor, Philosopher
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
- Euripides (480-406 BC) Greek Playwright
Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
- R[obert]. Briffault (1876-1948) Author
The full-grown modern human being is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of a goal pursued.
- James Allen
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
- Phillips Brooks (1835-1893) American Bishop
Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
- Epictetus (55-135 AD) Greek Philosopher
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
- Duke (Edward Kennedy) Ellington (1899-1974) American Composer Bandleader and Pianist
A goal is a dream that has an ending.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968) American Writer
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.
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English Novelist
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish Novelist
To be what we are, and to become what
we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Max Lerner (1902-1992) American Educator, Columnist
Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal, but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there.
- Harold E. Stassen
Have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish Novelist
I have resolved from this day on, I will do all the business I can honestly, have all the fun I can reasonably, do all the good I can willingly, and save my digestion by thinking pleasantly.
- E. Merrill Root (1895-1973) American Writer
The first question anyone or anything should ask is this: "What am I in my essential nature and being?" ...
If he is a true artist, of language or life, he will seek his destiny and grow toward his meaning.
- Emil Zatopek (1922-) Czech Middle Distance Runner
You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it. That's the only way to get to the top.
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