Joseph Joubert Quotes

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

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

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

A man’s life may stagnate as literally as water may stagnate, and just as motion and direction are the remedy for one, so purpose and activity are the remedy for the other.

We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

I want to be challenged, I want to work, and I want to feel that I am not being held back, that there is something in front of me, something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast, you know?

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Concentrate on the things that matter to you.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

I feel like I know where I'm going. And I like where I'm going.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

When I have a bad day I look back six months and see where we were and ask myself if we are moving in the right direction.