"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

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"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

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"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Goal, Attention, Day, Students

"Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship."

LeBron James, American Athlete

Goal, Winning, Will

"What is a goal without a purpose?"

J.R. Rim, American Author

Goal, Purpose, Meaning, Direction

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."

Henry Ellis, British Psychologist

Goal, Philosophy

"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."

Paul Kane, English Writer

Goal, Goals, End, Patience, Persistence

"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."

Mike Pence, American Politician

Goal, Goals, Agreement, Legislation

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

Marianne Williamson, American Author

Goal, Practice, Self, Sense

"It's not my goal to be a famous actor."

Gavin DeGraw, American Musician

Goal, Actor, Famous

"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."

Richard Stallman, American Scientist

Goal, Idealism, Want, World

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."

Joseph Ratzinger, German Clergyman

Goal, Dictatorship, Ego

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"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."

"Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate - my ultimate goal is winning championships and - and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship."

"What is a goal without a purpose?"

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way."

"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."

"It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals."

"The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self."

"It's not my goal to be a famous actor."

"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal."

"We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."

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"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."

"It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit."

"When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise."

"Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you."

"Dinner was made for eating, not for talking."

"To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best."

"It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob."

"There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa."

"I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses."