Goals Quotes
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There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
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There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
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This is true joy of life-the being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a right one, instead of being a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
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Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms. -Samuel Johnson No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.
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To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!
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Too low they build who build beneath the stars.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out; you must stay out, and to stay out, you must have some absorbing errand.
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True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood or exaggeration in it.
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We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. But the tremendous effort needed- one doesn't always want to make it-does one? ... But what else can be done? What's the alternative? What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
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We have believed-and we do believe now-that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible.
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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.
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What most counts is not to live, but to live aright.
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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