Quotations about Goals II

The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin


The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner


It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett


I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ~Henry Ford


Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ~Author Unknown


When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart


Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back


Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn


There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills


If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. ~Ringo Starr


Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne


Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n. ~Thomas Alva Edison


A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ~Andre Gide


Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov


The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996


The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763


The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)


If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. ~Author Unknown


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854


There is one quality more important than "know-how" and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is "know-what" by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock. ~Graham Greene & Orson Wells, The Third Man, movie Know your limits... but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown