Higher Goals Quotes

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you want to improve a person, help him embrace a higher working goal-a standard, an ideal-and he will do his own 'making over' far more effectively than you can do it for him.

God grant that each of us here today may so live that all among us, and with us, may see, not us, but that which is divine and comes from God. With that vision of what those who have lost their way may become, my prayer is that they may receive strength and resolution to climb higher and higher and upward and onward to that great goal of eternal life and also that I may do my part in seeking to show by example, as well as by precept, that which will be the best of which I am capable of doing.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

There's more to life than movies.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.

It was a steppingstone. The NBA, for me, was preparation for me to do something someplace else.

There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.

Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.