Emma Goldman 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.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

As the means, so the end.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.

We talk on principal, but act on motivation.

Without a plan, there's no attack. Without attack, no victory.

All that counts in life is intention.

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal.

Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.

I'm not really a numbers guy, but I always have a goal in mind.

Objectives are not commands; they are commitments.

Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?

Purpose should determine approach. At the end of the day, it's what we do, not what we purposed to do, that defines our lives and reputations.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

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

We ought to consider the end in everything.

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

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have

In anything we do, any endeavor, it's not what you do; it's why you do it

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

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.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.