Paul Hawken Quotes

To acheive happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.

I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

Without having a goal, it's difficult to score.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Reach your ambition as high as the skies! Dream as high as the skies! Because if you fell, you will fall among the stars!!

If you succeed at most of your activities, your goals are set much too low.

I want to be part of something great.

Yes, I am successful in Asia. But if you think about that too much, you become boring. Because you don't want to take risks.

Be motivated by something beyond simply money or glory.

I just wanted to do something important.

Books succeed; and lives fail.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it.

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.