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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson Mandela

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
Russell Baker

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Lewis Carroll

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry A. Kissinger

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results.
George S. Patton

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.
Lee Iacocca

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry S. Truman

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Don Marquis

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw

The big thing is that you know what you want.
Earl Nightingale

The world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going
James Allen

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

What went wrong? I’ll tell you what went wrong! When you got there, there was no there there.
Terry Pratchett

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Henry David Thoreau

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

When you get there, there isn't any there there.
Gertrude Stein

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Teri Garr

You have to look where you lost it.
/Murphy's Law/

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
Ralph Marston