"If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct."
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"No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions."
"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people."
"I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals."
"Seconds of focused pleasureable visualization is stronger than 2000 hours of working to obtain a goal"
"The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality."
"Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment."
"The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'"
"I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way."
"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives."
"God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away."
"...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period."
"I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible."
"Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have."
"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless."
"You must raise your aspirations, set higher goals, and make detailed plans to achieve them."
"All your hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations are amenable to hard work."
"Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed"
"If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you're showing up for."
"A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime."