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"Nonviolence is the only way. Even if you achieve your goal by violent means there are always side effects, and these can be worse than the problem. Violence is against human nature."
"The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part."
"Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you."
"The priority of the Trump administration is to secure the border and deport criminal aliens; people who are not just here illegally but who are violent criminals. That's the goal."
"Do not measure your life by your goals but what you are doing to achieve them."
"Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits."
"To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness."
"When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line."
"My goal is to replicate prosperity with integrity."
"My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show."
"The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen."
"The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate."
"The awareness that we cultivate is what makes yoga a practice, rather than a task or a goal to be completed. Your body will most likely become much more flexible by doing yoga, and so will your mind."
"There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines."
"You can achieve almost any goal if you just do what other successful people have done to achieve the same goals before you."
"A goal without a plan is only a dream."
"If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid."
"Any goal can be achieved if you break it down into enough small parts."
"A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy."
"Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?"
