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Cat: Where are you going?Alice: Which way should I go?Cat: That depends on where you are going.Alice...

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Lewis CarrollAlice in Wonderland

You have to erect a fence and say "Okay scale this."

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone el...

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There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Onl...

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If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you ...

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If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you...

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It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I goi...

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He might never really do what he said but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

You've got to know what you want. This is central to acting on your intentions. When you know what y...

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I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up a...

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Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and s...

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Our victory is sure to come and I can endure anything but recreancy to principle.

True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...

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Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a...

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The secret of living is to find ... the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward...

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People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake t...

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The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Without a purpose nothing should be done.

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...

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If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and yo...

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People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My messa...

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The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something goo...

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Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost objec...

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Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.

I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or c...

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Man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction...

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A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true abou...

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Maxwell MaltzThe New Psycho-Cybernetics: The Original Science of Self-Improvement and Success That Has Changed the Lives of 30 Million People

It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is th...

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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at...

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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear...

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Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course toward his obj...

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Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Tell the world what you intend to do but first show it.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set...

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Napoleon HillThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But,...

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Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overr...

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I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don...

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CHAPTER VIConcerning New Principalities Which Are Acquired By One's Own Arms And AbilityLET no one b...

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The business of life is to enjoy oneself everything else is a mockery.

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just so...

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If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it...

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We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.

Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition abo...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and u...

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I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass ...

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Finally there are those who saw at once that the question was a trap. There is no answer. Instead of...

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Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you’ve stopped moving forward, and at t...

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What you need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything th...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Alchemist

If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only o...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Alchemist

Man needs what's worst in him in order to achieve what's best in him.

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exac...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening...

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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is v...

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People often overestimate what they can accomplish in one year. But they greatly underestimate what ...

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On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unab...

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We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out...

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It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's th...

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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level....

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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you the society of your contemporaries the co...

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We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtfu...

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I never took a position we were going to be a good ball club. I took the position we were going to b...

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The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members...

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The more I want to get something done the less I call it work.

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children"....

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Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but...

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I've never stopped wanting to cross the equator, or touch an

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Rita DoveOn the Bus With Rosa Parks

Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what's a heaven for?

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to uniteMy avocation and my vocationA...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a s...

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can nev...

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I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.