Author Topic: ~ Goals Quotes ~  (Read 58737 times)

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #240 on: July 21, 2018, 04:59:36 PM »
[highlight-text]A windmill is eternally at work to accomplish one end although it shifts with every variation of the weathercock and assumes ten different positions in a day.

Charles Caleb Colton

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #241 on: July 21, 2018, 05:00:08 PM »
[highlight-text]Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief lightens all worry dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Gladys Taber

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #242 on: July 21, 2018, 05:01:23 PM »
[highlight-text]I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.

Audrey Hepburn

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #243 on: July 21, 2018, 05:02:21 PM »
[highlight-text]No pleasure philosophy no sensuality no place nor power no material success can for a moment give such inner satisfaction as the sense of living for good purpose.

Minot Simons

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #244 on: July 21, 2018, 05:02:50 PM »
[highlight-text]Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I many not reach them but I can look up and see the beauty believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

Louisa May Alcott

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #245 on: July 21, 2018, 05:03:19 PM »
[highlight-text]From his cradle to the grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object save one-to secure peace of mind spiritual comfort for himself.

Mark Twain

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« Reply #246 on: July 21, 2018, 05:03:51 PM »
[highlight-text]A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Annie Dillard

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #247 on: July 21, 2018, 05:05:11 PM »
[highlight-text]If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #248 on: July 21, 2018, 05:05:42 PM »
[highlight-text]Men cannot for long live hopefully unless they are embarked upon some great unifying enterprise one for which they may pledge their lives their fortunes and their honor.

C. A. Dykstra

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« Reply #249 on: July 21, 2018, 05:06:16 PM »
[highlight-text]The goal of all civilization all religious thought and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end.

Don Marquis

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #250 on: July 21, 2018, 05:06:52 PM »
[highlight-text]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.

Henry James

Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #251 on: July 21, 2018, 05:07:21 PM »
[highlight-text]An aspiration is a joy forever a possession as solid as a landed estate a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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« Reply #252 on: July 21, 2018, 05:07:52 PM »
[highlight-text]A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.... A determinate purpose in life and a steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.

William M. Punshion

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« Reply #253 on: July 21, 2018, 05:08:24 PM »
[highlight-text]Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

Alan Paton

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« Reply #254 on: July 21, 2018, 05:08:56 PM »
[highlight-text]Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Lord Chesterfield