Best goal & pursuit Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.”

Mean Doe Political Process Goal Challenges Struggle Pursuit Abandoned Ira Armed Struggle

Author:James T. Walsh

“The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.”

Ideas Self Goal Pursuit Gratification Morrow Disillusion

Book:The Way of Zen

Source: The Way of Zen

“The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.”

School Individual Goal Education Teaching Building Goes On Ultimate Conviction Burden Educational Pursuit Odd Get Over Ultimate Goal Educational System School Buildings

Author:John W. Gardner

“You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.”

Ifs Goal Successful Passionate Pursuit Being Successful Relentless Relentless Pursuit

Author:Steve Garvey

“The wise man knoweth where to stop, as he runneth in the race of fortune, For experience of old hath taught him, that happiness lingered midway; And many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, But have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold--the mind and the power to enjoy it.”

Men Mind Lost Enjoy Goal Wealth Race Wise Taught Gold Hot Fortune Pursuit Ran Apples Midway

Book:Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume

Source: Proverbial Philosophy: A Book of Thoughts and Arguments. 1st and 2d Series in One Volume

“May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.”

Knows May Age Goal Successful Ambition Pursuit Being Successful Grandson

Author:Bette Davis

“We cannot win in team situations or in relationships by ourselves. It is like trying to pick up a pencil with only one finger...Even if that one finger is extremely strong, it will prove almost impossible to pick up that pencil unless you use your other fingers or some other part of your hand. Teamwork is a bit like using all of your fingers. Each one is unique and contributes something different, but they unite in pursuit of a common goal.”

Ifs Trying Different Use Hands Winning Strong Bits Goal Common Situation Impossible Team Prove Unique Picks Fingers Pursuit Teamwork Pencils Common Goal

Author:Terry Orlick

“There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.”

Humans Two Life Is Courses Goal Ignorance Pursuit Graves Human Life Repose Pursuit Of Knowledge

Author:Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

“Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)”

Thinking Men Needs Trying Two Reason Play Goal Wealth Roles Hair Ambition Empty Essence Oneself Riches Pursuit Emptiness Latter Mask Scent Trails Live It Up

Author:African Spir

“I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.”

People Ifs Knows Force Goal Powerful Mankind Movement Messages Labor Democratic Population Pursuit Sections Secured

Book:Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

Source: Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974

“When your entire life is focused around one goal and one goal only, and you have no other pursuits, it enables you to achieve enormous mastery.”

Life Is Goal Achieve Focused Pursuit Enormous Mastery

Author:Liz Garbus

“In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.”

Men Goal Forget Pursuit Zeal Ardor

Book:The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German

“Success is the ability to meet worthy goals, but it's also the ability to love and have compassion and the ability to get in touch with your creative center, to transform yourself toward more peaceful and just pursuits. I hope we redefine success. Otherwise, we'll see more of what we're already seeing - more aggression, more burnout, more Wall Street scandals, more war, more terrorism, more eco-destruction.”

War Goal Ability Compassion Creative Seeing Streets Wall Destruction Worthy Terrorism Pursuit Peaceful Aggression Scandal Burnout Eco Ability To Love

Author:Deepak Chopra

“A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.”

Looks Ends Dream Goal Mirrors Pursuit Winner The End Of The Day Dreams And Goals

Author:Dick Vitale

“Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.”

Should Goal Greater Progress Pursuit Measurement Markers

Author:Simon Sinek

“A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The pursuit of Enlightenment-era goals - solving our world's problems through rational discourse, rather than through religion and tradition - provides ample grounds for a purposive existence. It is not for nothing that the Enlightenment, when atheism truly began to take hold, was also known as the Age of Reason.”

World Reason Problem Age Purpose Goal Existence Known Atheism Enlightenment Tradition Pursuit Rational Eras Merit Our World Discourse Submission Deities Premises Age Of Reason

Author:Jeffrey Tayler

“It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.”

Would Be Goal Mistake Assuming Educational Contrary Pursuit Efficient Machinery Rapids Obsolete Present Day Educational System Unchanging Rapid Change

Author:Alvin Toffler

“The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.”

Goal Pursuit Lust Purity Suppression

Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“It's one of the greatest honors I could ever imagine - to be able to represent my country and to be able to wear "USA" on my back. It's an incredible honor. It's an accomplishment of the past four year but of a life of dreaming and working hard and doing everything I can in pursuit of this goal.”

Years I Can Country Hard Dream Able Past Goal Four Imagine Honor Incredibles Pursuit Accomplishment Usa Four Years

Author:Elana Meyers

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