Quotes with goal-posts

  • In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

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  • Thurgood Marshall A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
    Thurgood Marshall
    American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (1908 - 1993)
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  • Aristotle 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
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mack R. Douglas The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
    Mack R. Douglas
    American author
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • Bruce Lee A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Zig Ziglar A goal properly set is halfway reached.
    Zig Ziglar
    American author, salesman, and motivational speaker. (1926 - 2012)
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  • Brian Tracy All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Barack Obama And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Bart Conner Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
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  • Mario Andretti Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
    Mario Andretti
    Italian-born American former racing driver (1940 - )
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  • Max Lerner Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Emile Durkheim From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Alfred Adler God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry Ford Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Bo Bennett The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Bill Copeland The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Bruce Friedman A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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