Goals

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If a person knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Seneca the Younger

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Topic

Goals Aimlessness

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Letters of Seneca the Younger

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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Topic

Goals

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

Economy Walden

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

Proverbs 13:19

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Topic

Finishing a task Goals Accomplishment

Source

Proverbs The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 13:19).

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

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Topic

Goals Flow state Focus

Author

Mary Shelley

Source

Frankenstein

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, letter 1.

Current Citation

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Penguin Classics, 2018, letter 1.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Topic

Thinking big Goals

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

Elegiac Verse In the Harbor

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Elegiac Verse." In the Harbor. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882, st. 11.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Goals

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Letters of George Bernard Shaw

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to Ellen Terry. 28 Aug. 1896.

Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Apostle Paul

Philippians 3:13-14

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Topic

Eyes on the prize Goals Focus

Author

Apostle Paul

Source

Philippians The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Philippians 3:13-14).

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Topic

Thinking big Goals Dreams

Speaker

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Source

2011 Harvard commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. Commencement speech. Commencement cermony. 26 May 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.

Philip Sidney

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Topic

Thinking big Goals

Author

Philip Sidney

Source

Arcadia

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sidney, Philip. The New Arcadia. London, 1590.

Current Citation

Sidney, Philip. "The New Arcadia." Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2009.

The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.

Learned Hand

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Topic

Goals Ambition

Speaker

Learned Hand

Source

Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.