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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it." »Arnold J. Toynbee
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"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." »Michael Hanson
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"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." »Zig Ziglar
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"I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless." »Bette Davis
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"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
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"It's hard to stay committed...to stay in touch with the goal without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal, the world." »Nancy Hogshead
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"Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do." »Peter McWilliams
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"Resentment is anger directed at others--at what they did or did not do." »Peter McWilliams
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"Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends." »Jawaharlal Nehru
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"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Poverty, we may say, surrounds a man with ready-made barriers, which if they do mournfully gall and hamper, do at least prescribe for him, and force on him, a sort of course and goal; a safe and beaten, though a circuitous, course. A great part of his guidance is secure against fatal error, is withdrawn from his control. The rich, again, has his whole life to guide, without goal or barrier, save of his own choosing, and, tempted, is too likely to guide it ill." »Carlyle
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"My fate cannot be mastered it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul I am only its noisiest passenger." »Aldous Huxley
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"The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others." »Marilyn Ferguson
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"The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without." »Eric Hoffer
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"I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the government are directed tot he purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer." »William Henry Harrison
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"Propose to any englishman any principle, or any instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the english mind is directed to find a difficulty, defect or an impossibility in it." »Charles Babbage
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"Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire." »Ludwig Mises
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"Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation." »Lewis S Feuer
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"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways." »Akhenaton
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"Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed." »Seneca
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"Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall." »Max Lerner
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"Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him" »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"A goal without a plan is just a wish." »Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal." »Vince Lombardi
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"Do not turn back when you are just at the goal." »Publilius Syrus
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"The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it." »Peggy Fleming
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"Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product." »Roosevelt, Eleanor
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"The goal of all life is death." »Sigmund Freud
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"Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself." »Brian Lindsay
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"Goal achievement is hero's work." »Earnie Larsen
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