"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
— C.S. Lewis

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

"Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

"If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind."
— John Bytheway (How to Be Totally Miserable: A Self-Hinder Book)

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."
— Henry David Thoreau

""Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.""
— E. Joseph Cossman

"Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing is just a grain of sand, and what you've been up there searching for forever, is in your hands. When you figure out love is all that matters after all it sure makes everything else seem so small."
— Carrie Underwood

"Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;

In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983"
— Winston S. Churchill

"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?"
— Robert Schuller

"I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down, and I will not let myself down."
— Mia Hamm

"If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals."
— Lou Holtz

"Even a moment's reflection will help you see that the problem of using your time well is not a problem of the mind but of the heart. It will only yield to a change in the very way we feel about time. The value of time must change for us. And then the way we think about it will change, naturally and wisely.
That change in feeling and in thinking is combined in the words of a prophet of God in this dispensation. It was Brigham Young, and the year was 1877, and he was speaking at April general conference. He wasn't talking about time or schedules or frustrations with too many demands upon us. Rather, he was trying to teach the members of the Church how to unite themselves in what was called the united order. The Saints were grappling with the question of how property should be distributed if they were to live the celestial law. In his usual direct style, he taught the people that they were having trouble finding solutions because they misunderstood the problem. Particularly, he told them they didn't understand either property or the distribution of wealth. Here is what he said:

With regard to our property, as I have told you many times, the property which we inherit from our Heavenly Father is our time, and the power to choose in the disposition of the same. This is the real capital that is bequeathed unto us by our Heavenly Father; all the rest is what he may be pleased to add unto us. To direct, to counsel and to advise in the disposition of our time, pertains to our calling as God's servants, according to the wisdom which he has given and will continue to give unto us as we seek it. [JD 18:354]

Time is the property we inherit from God, along with the power to choose what we will do with it. President Young calls the gift of life, which is time and the power to dispose of it, so great an inheritance that we should feel it is our capital. The early Yankee families in America taught their children and grandchildren some rules about an inheritance. They were always to invest the capital they inherited and live only on part of the earnings. One rule was "Never spend your capital." And those families had confidence the rule would be followed because of an attitude of responsibility toward those who would follow in later generations. It didn't always work, but the hope was that inherited wealth would be felt a trust so important that no descendent would put pleasure ahead of obligation to those who would follow. Now, I can see and hear Brigham Young, who was as flinty a New Englander as the Adams or the Cabots ever hoped to be, as if he were leaning over this pulpit tonight. He would say something like this, with a directness and power I wish I could approach: "Your inheritance is time. It is capital far more precious than any lands or stocks or houses you will ever get. Spend it foolishly, and you will bankrupt yourself and cheapen the inheritance of those that follow you. Invest it wisely, and you will bless generations to come.
“A Child of Promise”, BYU Speeches, 4 May 1986"
— Henry B. Eyring

"It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin."
— Benjamin Elijah Mays

"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

""Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.""
— Chariots of Fire

"There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level. If machines replace achievement, then to what will people aspire? And who are we, truly, without such goals?
Beware the engineers of society, I say, who would make everyone in all the world equal. Opportunity should be equal, must be equal, but achievement must remain individual."
— R.A. Salvatore (Streams of Silver)

"anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. what is vertigo? fear of falling? then why do we feel it even when the observation tower comes equipped with a sturdy handrail? no, vertigo is something other than the fear of falling. it is the voice of emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
— Albert Einstein

"But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness. "
— Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)

""The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we make it.""
— Michaelangelo

"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

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
— Alexandre Dumas

"Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
— Liz Smith

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
— Jim Ryun

"A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving."
— Ayn Rand

"I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing--I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams."
— Dara Torres (Age is Just a Number: Achieve Your Dreams At Any Stage In Your Life)

"The most important thing about goals is having them"
— Lisa Cummings

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. "
— Will Rodgers (The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers in His Own Voice)

""What keeps me going is goals.""
— Muhammad Ali

"And I was remembering that time in our lives together, the time of those ritual walks. I was remembering the way it feels at just that moment when you begin to turn, when you’re poised exactly between the things in life you want to do and those you need to do, and it seems for a few blessed seconds that they are all going to be the same."
— Sue Miller (While I Was Gone)

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."
— Arnold J Toynbee

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

"When you could do anything, what you decide to do is important."
— Neal R. Voron

"Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement"
— Brian Tracy (Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time: Easyread Large Edition)

"من يطارد عصفورين يفقدهما جميعا"
— عبدالله محمد الداوود