Benjamin E. Mays Quotes

It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.

I have so many goals.

I have a whole, you know, pocket full of dreams I want to achieve. I don't know in which order they're going to fall.

You will have many more goals in the years ahead. But do not confuse a goal with a purpose.

I guess that I have nothing more to aspire for.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I don't have goals in life.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

I want to do really good things with my life.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.

If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.

I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque perversion of ambition. It's an ego trip, and I'm not on an ego trip. I don't have ambitions - I have a vision.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

The world is divided into those who want to become someone and those who want to accomplish something.

Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.

There are 320 million American dreams. Go get yours.

I'm living out my dreams every day.

When I won the world title, I am not going to lie, it was an unbelievable feeling. It was like a weight off my shoulders, a goal I'd set myself for so long and one others had talked about. When I got there I realised how I am never satisfied and how I always want more.

In 1987, I wrote a goal sheet. I didn't want to waste my life. I'd dropped out of college, and there was a lot of pressure from my parents. I decided, 'If you're going to do this, you're going to become the best in the world at this.'