Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in a striving toward an important goal.
—Maxwell Maltz (1899–1975) American Surgeon, Motivational Writer
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
—John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (1874–1960) American Philanthropist, Businessperson
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
—Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) English Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Academic
I believe every person is created as the steward of his or her destiny with great power for a specific purpose to share with others, through service, a reverence for life in a spirit of love.
—Indian Proverb
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.
—Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American Inventor, Scientist, Entrepreneur
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
—Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
—Denis Waitley (b.1933) American Motivational Speaker, Author
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
—Ralph Vaull Starr
A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder – a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
—Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926-2004) American Psychiatrist
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.
—George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours.
—Doug Larson (1926–2017) American Columnist
I believe the ultimate goal of living and refining your values is to identify and achieve congruence with universal principles.
—Steve Pavlina (b.1971) American Motivational Speaker
As you make your way through life, let this ever be your goal, keep your eye upon the dougnut and not upon the hole.
—Anonymous
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
The goal of all life is death.
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian Psychiatrist, Psychoanalytic
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose words and actions show that he knows where he is going.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.
—Robert Browning (1812–89) English Poet
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
—Robert H. Schuller (1926–2015) American Christian Televangelist, Author
Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
One whose every goal is accomplished and every dream fulfilled, lives not as a man but as an instrument of destiny
—Indian Proverb
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
—Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) American Film Producer, Director
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, “There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.”
—Ted Williams (1918–2002) American Sportsperson