#goal

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer. ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!). ↗

— Tony Reinke

#books #goals #limitations #reading #money

It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop—keep going. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#goals #motivation #persistence #self-determination #success

the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay. ↗

— Terra Elan McVoy

#leaving #motivate #moving #staying #motivational

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#goals #motivation #self-doubt #success #motivational

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#goals #motivational #motivational

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want. ↗

— Thomas J. Vilord

#motivation #procrastination #motivational

The pursuit of truth is not important. The pursuit of that truth is important which helps you in reaching your goal that is provided you have one. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#truth #romantic

When you wake up, think about winning the day. Don't worry about a week or a month from now -- just think about one day at a time. If you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. Win the day! ↗

— Drew Brees

#adversity

I had such plans for this evening. The pursuit of blind drunkenness and wayward women was my goal. But alas, it was not to be. No sooner had I consumed my third drink in the Devil than I was accosted by a delightful small flower selling child who asked me for twopence for a daisy. The price seemed steep, so I refused. When I told the girl as much, she proceeded to rob me.” “A little girl robbed you?” Tessa said. “Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will #wit #goals

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#success #goal-setting