Margaret Sanger Quotes

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals.

If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

Don't focus on the problem, focus on the PURPOSE.

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point from which one must begin.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.

It is a deplorable thing to see all men deliberating on means alone, and not on the end.

I feel like I have goals that I set, and I try to accomplish those goals, so no matter what room I step into, I know the direction that I'm wanting to head.

When you know what you want, you know where you want to go.

I start with an end in mind. In everything.

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

You can’t hit a target if you don’t know what it is.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

I know what I want, and where to go.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.