"The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle."
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"My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal"
"Reasons come first. Answers come second"
"My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement."
"Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it"
"Success is goals, everything else is commentary."
"Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles."
"A goal without a pan is just a wish."
"The goal of life is not the earning of money, but the service of God.p.114"
"I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought."
"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."
"Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change."
"The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le."
"Dreams are the seedlings of reality."
"Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints."
"Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal."
"Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand."
"The tragic evils of our life are so commonly unintentional. We did not start out for that poor, cheap goal. That aim was not in our minds at all....Look to the road you are walking on. He who picks up one end of [a] stick picks up the other.He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to."
"How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone."
"As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person."