Pursuit of Goals Quotes

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I'm a big believer that the reception is not the endeavor. And what I enjoy about almost all my work is the endeavor, the doing of something.

At the beginning of his struggle, the Warrior says: "I have dreams."

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

All this time, I wasn't hungry for success, I was hungry.

The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.

Our actions are all that separate our daydreams from our goals.

Success ... seems to be connected with action.

Desire is the key to motivation.

The dream is free...but the journey will cost you something.

You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

Love what you have. And then go for what you want.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I'm sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.

History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.

Once you want something, everything changes.

You owe it to all of us all get on with what you're good at.

generally speaking, we are all happier when we are still striving for achievement than when the prize is in our hands.

In the past there were two things that motivated me then: independence, and passion about what I was doing. And those are still the things that motivate me now. I still have that passion for creating a product. And I will never be dependent on a man. I will never be dependent on a husband or a boyfriend or a father. That's one thing that's really important to me.