Wisdom Quotations

Goals

Anatole France:
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

Anne Frank:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Epictetus:
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Frank Lloyd Wright:
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Helen Keller:
I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.

Herb Cohen:
If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost.

J.C. Penney:
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

John F. Kennedy:
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

John F. Kennedy:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Michael Hanson:
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.

Richard J. Foster:
Goals are discovered, not made.

Celebration of Discipline

Robert H. Schuller:
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Seneca:
If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Ursula K. LeGuin:
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.

Victor Frankl:
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

Vince Lombardi:
Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

Vince Lombardi:
Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.

Yogi Berra:
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

William James:
Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.