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Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I never try to set goals that I know are too tough to achieve or out of my reach.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

Some goals you just never really think about trying to achieve because they just seem so out of reach.