David Hume Quotes

All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.

My goal isn't to shock.

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.

Anything I do, I'm doing it for a reason.

There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design.

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I don't have a goal.

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

An agenda is not a bad thing.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you're going to work very hard to go nowhere.

I have goals.

Focus on a specific intention... A goal is often fueled by fear... An intention is fueled by a sense of purpose.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.

In the works of Nature, purpose, not accident, is the main thing.

Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.

To accomplish anything you must first have a mission, a goal, a hope, a vision.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Goals are the links in the chain that connect activity to accomplishment.