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We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives.
Sep 10, 2025
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.
You have to know what you want to get it.
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.
The world makes way for the man with an idea.
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
My first job was actually as a social worker. And then later, I got my PhD in anthropology. And I've always been interested in humans as well as primates. We are all kind of have the same emotions, the same goals and lives really. But to me, when I first got to Madagascar I realized that the lemurs lives are very closely related to what the humans are doing; partially because they've got both looking for natural resources. And if we can make some way that both humans and lemurs can live together peaceably and happily, that would be my goal for Madagascar.
The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Go as far as you can see and you will see further.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
Always begin with the end in mind.
Begin with the end in mind.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do