E. M. Forster Quotes

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

I figured out if I have a good goal in mind, then I can actually achieve it.

Goals. There's no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There's no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There's no telling what will happen when you act upon them.

You must take the will for the deed.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

If you have ambitions, dream of what you wish to accomplish, and then put your shoulder to the wheel and work.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

Understand the ways in which your hard work is going to be necessary to achieve the goals that you want.

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

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

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

My measure of success is whether I'm fulfilling my mission.

When you set goals and you reach those goals in mid-August and early September, there's nothing to look forward to. You sort of lose your drive.

I believe one should work hard to get what you want.

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

I feel like I have goals that I set, and I try to accomplish those goals, so no matter what room I step into, I know the direction that I'm wanting to head.

If you have a goal, you have to step forward and try to get it accomplished.

If you're going somewhere, you want to go somewhere where you have a chance to have success.

I'm not happy until I'm going forward and accomplishing goals.