Jean de La Fontaine 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.

The good is the end toward which all things tend.

In everything we ought to look at the end.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

An agenda is not a bad thing.

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.

Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

One must consider the final result

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

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 one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Usually when you act, you know where you're going, where the point is.

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

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.

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

When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

What is the why behind everything you do?

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

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

Without a goal there can be no real success.

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