“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
“Better to have a big goal and reach half of it than to have no goal and reach all of it.”
Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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.”
Dilma Rousseff (1947) 36th President of Brazil
Eternal
“Some goals and difficult goals are reached only by waiting, I can wait.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
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.”
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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). <br class="br">Misattributed
Gregory Peck (1916–2003) American actor
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.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
Source: Meditation and Its Methods According to Swami Vivekananda
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
Vangisasamyutta, as translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (2000), p. 287
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Samyutta Nikaya (Connected Discourses)