People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Peace is the only goal worth struggling for.
First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Without some goal and some effort to reach it, no man can live.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Science, in the immediate, produces knowledge and, indirectly, means of action. It leads to methodical action if definite goals are set up in advance. For the function of setting up goals and passing statements of value transcends its domain.
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem—in my opinion—to characterize our age.
No easy hope or lies Shall bring us to our goal, But iron sacrifice Of body, will, and soul.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience.
If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.