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Quotations about Goals II
By peace | March 11, 2006
The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done. ~Henry Ford
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ~Author Unknown
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We’re afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don’t because of personal obstacles. Don’t avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you’ll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Don’t waste time learning the “tricks of the trade.” Instead, learn the trade. ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
Of course I’m ambitious. What’s wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. ~Ringo Starr
Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hell! There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish somep’n. ~Thomas Alva Edison
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. ~Author Unknown
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854
There is one quality more important than “know-how” and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is “know-what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. ~Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. ~David Lloyd George In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock. ~Graham Greene & Orson Wells, The Third Man, movie Know your limits… but never stop trying to exceed them. ~Author Unknown
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