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Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair

Success, Failure, Creative

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget

Education, Women, Men

A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for.
Thurgood Marshall

Mother, True, Person

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.
Lou Holtz

Job, Team, Keep

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
Bo Bennett

Character, Learn, Discipline

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Great, Happen, Rather

Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach.
Earl Nightingale

Problem, Between, Reach

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
Max Eastman

Mind, Him, Play

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
Jane Pauley

Cancer, Illness, Mental

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Earl Nightingale

Success, Ideal, Worthy

My mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things. We would always make a goal list every year.
Kim Kardashian

Mom, Same, Year

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner

Life, Free, Nation

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair

Waiting, Lost, Perfect

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Bette Davis

Success, Work, Golden

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Mary Kay Ash

Good, Makes, Exercise

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager's goal.
Brian Tracy

Human, Possible, Return

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Dean Koontz

Power, Public, Goals

My goal isn't to make money, it's to try and survive and make a point.
Marilyn Manson

Money, Try, Point

For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.
Sylvester Stallone

Life, Thought, Team

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

Moving, Ego, Toward

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.
Jeff Foxworthy

May, Stand, Redneck

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
Larry Flynt

Wife, Job, Doubt

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Success, Motivation, Desire

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
Benjamin E. Mays

Life, Lie, Lies

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.
Alfred Adler

Peace, Nature, Science

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!
Alanis Morissette

Family, Different, Through

Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
Gary Ryan Blair

Respect, Fear, Failure

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan

Human, Among, Toward

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Christopher Columbus

May, Obstacles, Chosen

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life, Storm, Sail

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