Quotations about Goals I

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford


Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown


The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard


If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter


It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770


Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson


Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt


Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot


The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint


Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow


A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown


I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~Douglas Adams


The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session (Thanks, Paul.)


If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power


Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson


Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown


Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown


God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown


Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. ~Adolph Monod


The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead


Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier


It is never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot


Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. ~From a billboard advertisement


Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen


To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young


The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown