“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
Variant: Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Variant: The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
“We will not define our goal, but when we reach our goal we will duplicate the goal.”
Eternal
“Some goals and difficult goals are reached only by waiting, I can wait.”
Original: (it) Alcuni traguardi e difficili obiettivi si raggiungono solo aspettando, io so aspettare.
Source: prevale.net
“Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.”
These words, which have been widely attributed to Scalia, do not appear in any of his writings or statements. http://www.snopes.com/scalia-death-penalty-quote He nonetheless remarked in Herrera v. Collins (1993, concurring) that state courts had no obligation to review a death sentence on factual innocence grounds, an opinion that he repeated in In re Davis (2009, dissenting).
Misattributed
As quoted in The ArtSlut's Guide to Makin' It — As a Visual Artist (2007) by Barb Benson
Context: You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.
“Arise, awake and Stop not till the Goal is Reached.”
Pearls of Wisdom
Source: Meditation and Its Methods According to Swami Vivekananda
Vangisasamyutta, as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (2000), p. 287
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses)
