Games - Quotes

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Games

Even when you know the game, you must check whether the rules have changed. - Unknown

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. - Unknown

Games are meant to be enjoyed and if they always end in tears and unhappiness then they should not be played. - Unknown

Games lubricate the body and the mind. - Benjamin Franklin

It’s not the hand that you’re dealt, it’s how you play the game. - Unknown

The most important thing in any game is not to win but to take part. - Unknown

Gardens / Gardening - Quotes

A garden always gives back more than it receives. - Mara Beamish

A garden is a delight to the eye and a solace for the soul. - Sadi

A garden is a friend you can visit any time. - Unknown

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. - Gertrude Jekyll

A garden is never so good as it will be next year. - Thomas Cooper

A garden is one of the few expressions of man’s nature that is altogether benign. - Nan Fairbrother

A garden is the best alternative therapy. - Germaine Greer

A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the whole to its own inherent rhythms. - Henry Beston

A garden really lives only insofar as it is an expression of faith, the embodiment of a hope and a song of praise. - Russell Page

A garden requires patient labour and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfil good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them. - Liberty Hyde Bailey

A garden that one makes oneself, becomes associated with one's personal history and that of one's friends, interwoven with one's tastes, preferences, and character, and constitutes a sort of unwritten, but withal manifest autobiography. - Alfred Austin

A good garden may have some weeds. - Thomas Fuller

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. - Henri Frederic Amiel

Any garden demands as much of its maker as he has to give. But I do not need to tell you, if you are a gardener, that no other undertaking will give as great a return for the amount of effort put into it. - Elizabeth Lawrence 

Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. - May Sarton

E'vn in the stifling bosom of the town, A garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, That here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, Or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well He cultivates. - William Cowper

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals. - Henry Beard and Roy McKie

Gardening is a labour full of tranquillity and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity. - John Evelyn

Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it. - Author Unknown

Gardening is about enjoying the smell of things growing in the soil, getting dirty without feeling guilty, and generally taking the time to soak up a little peace and serenity. - Lindley Karstens

Gardening is an active participation in the deepest mysteries of the universe. - Thomas Berry

Gardening is an exercise in optimism. Sometimes, it is a triumph of hope over experience. - Marina Schinz

Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas – working with nature provides the technique. - Elizabeth Murray 

Gardening requires lots of water – most of it in the form of perspiration. - Lou Erickson

However big or small your garden is, if you allow nature to touch your spirit, gardening will bring returns of peace, satisfaction, and well-being for as long as you continue to wander the garden path. - Norman H. Hansen

I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. - David Hobson

I've learned that keeping a vegetable garden is worth a medicine cabinet full of pills. - Unknown 

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. - Unknown

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought. - James Douglas

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So, we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet. - Jane Goodall

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart. - Karel Capek

Man was not made to rust out in idleness. A degree of exercise is as necessary for the preservation of health, both of body and mind, as his daily food. And what exercise is more fitting, or more appropriate of one who is in the decline of life, than that of superintending a well-ordered garden? What more enlivens the sinking mind? What is more conducive to a long life? - Joseph Breck

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale

Now the gardener is the one who has seen everything ruined so many times that (even as his pain increases with each loss) he comprehends – truly knows – that where there was a garden once, it can be again, or where there never was, there yet can be a garden. - Henry Mitchell

Of all the ingredients we employ in the creation of a garden, scent is probably the most potent and the least understood. Its effects can be either direct and immediate, drowning our senses in a surge of sugary vapor, or they can be subtle and delayed, slowly wafting into our consciousness, stirring our emotions and coloring our thoughts. - Stephen Lacey

Our bodies are our gardens – our wills are our gardeners. - Shakespeare

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Veronica A. Shoffstall

Scent is the most potent and bewitching substance in the gardener's repertory and yet it is the most neglected and least understood. The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it it detected. Each fragrance, whether sweet or spicy, light or heavy, comes upon you in its own way and evokes its own emotional response. - Stephen Lacey

Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. - Alfred Austin

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. - May Sarton

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul. - Alfred Austin

The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part plowman. He modifies the climate around his home. - John R. Whiting

The less help you have in a garden the more yours it is. - Nikki

The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies. - Gertrude Jeky

The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. - Vita Sackville-West

The longer you garden the better the eye gets, the more tuned to how colors vibrate in different ways and what they can do to each other. You become a scientist as well as an artist, with the lines between increasingly blurred. - Marjorie Harris

There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling. - Mirabel Osler

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? - Richard Dawkins

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow. - Audrey Hepburn

Weather means more when you have a garden. There’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans. - Marcelene Cox

Whatever else seems pleasant at first apprehension, at length becomes dull by too long acquaintance. But the pleasures of a garden are every day renewed. A garden is the only complete delight the world affords, ever complying with our various and mutable Minds. - Unknown

When the world wearies and society fails to satisfy, there is always the garden. - Minnie Aumonier

Genetic Engineering - Quotes

Even minor tampering with nature is apt to bring serious consequences, as did the introduction of a single chemical (DDT). Genetic engineering is tampering on a monumental scale, and nature will surely exact a heavy toll for this trespass. - Eva Novotny

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed. - Gina Maranto

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress. - Isaac Asimov

Generosity - Quotes

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give? - Jack Kornfield

Be just before you are generous. - Unknown

Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed. - Unknown

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do. - Kahil Gibran

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. - The Dalai Lama

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need. - Allan Lokos

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. - Alexander Pope

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left. - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. - Frank A. Clark

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. - Margaret Cho

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. - Simone de Beauvoir

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Genius - Quotes

A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind. - William James

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot. - Charles Bukowski

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows. - Havelock Ellis

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. - Jean de La Bruyere

Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be. - Fluke Greville

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. - W. H. Auden

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honoured, found it honourable to own their benefactor. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius holds its universal dominion because it touches the deepest suggestions and utters the multiform experiences of a common nature. - E. H. Chapin

Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart. - Henry Ward Beecher

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Genius is experience. Some seem to think that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives. Some are older souls than others, and so they know more. - Henry Ford

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance. - Eric Lau

Genius is mainly an affair of energy. - Matthew Arnold

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. - E. B. White

Genius is naught but a greater aptitude for patience. - Comte de Buffon

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it – so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. - Elbert Hubbard

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. - George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. - Denis Diderot

Genius is talent set on fire by courage. - Henry van Dyke

Genius is the ability to receive from the universe. - I Ching

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. - C.W Ceran

Genius is the accumulated wealth of our humanity – its most intense development concentrated at one point, and then with clearer expression and with mysterious power shot back to us across the galvanic lines of thought and feeling. - E. H. Chapin

Genius makes its observations in short hand; talent writes them out at length. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. - Charles Bukowski

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers. - Robert Graves

Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine. - Benjamin Franklin

Genius begins great works; labour alone finishes them. - Joseph Joubert

Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. - Elbert Hubbard

Genius is the capacity for taking infinite pains. - Thomas Carlyle

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James

GENIUS, like a planet, takes a wide circuit through the pure expanse of nature, and visits not regions only, but whole worlds, which SENSE does not know to exist. - Fluke Greville

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. - William Hazlitt

If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be successful, when you commence to earn money, when you are really successful, then your family and everybody no longer treats you like a genius, they treat you like a man who has become successful. - Pablo Picasso

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. - George Henry Lewes

Maybe that was what genius was: the knack of seeing the obvious through its obscure curtain of irrelevancies. - K. J. Parker

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject at hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night, it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit if genius. It is the fruit of labour and thought. - Alexander Hamilton

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius. - Henri-Frederic Amiel

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go into the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No great genius is without an admixture of madness. - Aristotle

One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd. - Carl Jung

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. - Eliza Cook

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. - Denis Diderot

People are often dazzled by the show of genius by others, not knowing that they too have it somewhere in themselves. - Unknown

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

Society has come to be somewhat perversely suspicious of the genius, almost as if there is something rather unjust about being unusually speedy in a person’s mental growth. - Unknown

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. - Sherlock Holmes
The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein

Sometimes a single word, spoken by the voice of genius, goes far into the heart. A hint, a suggestion, an undefined delicacy of expression, teaches us more than we gather from volumes of less gifted men. - William E. Channing

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen. - William Hazlitt

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honoured so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end. - Charles Caleb Colton

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. - Louis Aragon

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. - Unknown

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. - Aldous Huxley

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope – we must hope – that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. - Albert Einstein

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. - Amy Lowell

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius. - Arthur Helps

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man – but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded. - James Russell Lowell

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness. - Aristotle

These are the prerogatives of genius: To know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things. - Ambrose Bierce

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others. - Mark Twain

To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius – the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. - Isaac D’Israeli

To wake up the genius within your mind, you must first believe there is a genius residing there. - Unknown

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. - Abraham Lincoln

We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. - Saul Bellow

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people’s models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. - Unknown

Who in the same given time can produce more than many others, has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. - Johann Caspar Lavater

Gifts - Quotes

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. - Seneca

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. - Thomas Fuller

A pat on the back and a sympathetic ear are valuable gifts you can give to those you work, and live with. Times of crisis only increase their value. - Unknown

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. - Franz Kafka

Every one has a gift for something, even if it is the gift of being a good friend. - Marian Anderson

Everyone is gifted – but some people never open their package. - Wolfgang Riebe

It is a gift to be simple. - Unknown

Love the giver more than the gift. - Brigham Young

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing. - Charles Lamb

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. - Charles Dudley Warner

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein

The greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends. - Cindy Lew

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. - Brian Tracy

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. - Anthony D'Angelo

The greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern. - Joel Osteen

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. - Thich Nhat Hanh

The most precious gifts you can give your loved ones are loving words and deeds, of compassion, forgiveness, appreciation, understanding, and acceptance. - Unknown

The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race. - John Ruskin

Unconditional love is the greatest gift we can ever give. - Amy Leigh Mercree

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our special light. - Mary Dunbar

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. - Catherine De Hueck

You have three gifts you control: your thoughts, your speech and your behaviour. With these three, you can change your whole life and the whole world. - Unknown

Giving - Quotes

All that is given cheerfully and generously to another comes back to you and enriches your life in unexpected ways. - Unknown

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles. - Haney Ward Beecher

Give alms, if thou can; if not, a sweet and gentle word. - Unknown

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. - Nigerian Proverb

Give to those in need. One day you may benefit from the kindness of someone who does likewise. - Unknown

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. - Barbara Bush

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. - Ethel Percy Andrus

It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding. - Kahlil Gibran

No one has ever become poor by giving. - Anne Frank

The deep rewards of giving go to those who give out of a concern for others, and take pains to see that their giving is wisely done, to meet real needs or seize promising opportunities. - F. Emerson Andrews

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated. - Baltasar Gracian

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. - Max Beerbohm

When a person gives, he loves the object of his giving more – and so love is planted and grows. - David J. Lieberman

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. - Robert Louis Stevenson

You give but little when you give of your possessions.  It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Khalil Gibran

Glory - Quotes

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. - William Cowper

Glory drags all men along, low as well as high, bound captive at the wheels of her glittering car. - Horace

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. - Cicero

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Thomas Moore

Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. - Shakespeare

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. - Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius

Past glories are poor feeding. - Isaac Asimov

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - James Thompson 

The glory of great men must always be measured by the means they have used to obtain it. - Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. - Thomas Gray

True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier for our living in it. - Pliny The Elder

Unless what we do is useful, our glory is vain. - Phaedrus 

Goals - Quotes

A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at. - Bruce Lee

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on. - Tom Morris

A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Zig Ziglar

A goal, whatever it may be, is what gives meaning to our existence. It is the carrot of the stick that keeps us striving – that keeps us interested – that gives us a reason for getting out of bed in the morning. - Unknown

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. - Victoria Addino

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person. - Les Brown

Be stubborn about your goals, but flexible about your methods. - Unknown

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams. - Les Brown

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. - Mario Andretti

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. - Paul J. Meyer

Do not set your goals by what other people see important. Your goals in life are only important to you and those who love to see you succeed. Guard them well and only share them with the right people. - Unknown

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any. - Danielle Fotopoulis

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into. - Brian Tracy

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. - Aristotle

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. - Brian Tracy

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment. - Tony Robbins

Goals are dreams with deadlines. - Diana Scharf Hunt

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. - Les Brown

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped. - O. Carl Simonton

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. - Brian Tracy

Goals help you channel your energy into action. - Les Brown

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. - Denis Waitley

Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them. - Jim Rohn

If a goal is one that is important enough for you to seek, have the courage to take the first step in that direction. - Unknown

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed. - Dan Dierdorf

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. - Les Brown

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. - Zig Ziglar

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be. - Abraham Maslow

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin E. Mays

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Men do not succeed in business or in life, no matter how intelligent they may be, no matter how sharply their aptitudes are defined, no matter how brilliantly they may be educated unless they are oriented toward the proper goals and have the drive or motivating force to succeed. - WalIace H Wulfeck

Most “impossible” goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine. - Don Lancaster

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be. - Dr. Wayne W Dyer

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson

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

People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you’ll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. - Tony Robbins

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to “look forward to” – to work for and hope for. - Maxwell Maltz

People with goals succeed because they know where you are going. - Basil S. Walsh

Pursue your goals with boundless enthusiasm and energy, and you can turn your dreams into reality. - Unknown

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. - Bo Jackson

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. - Alexander Graham Bell

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. - Antoine de Saint

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. - Unknown

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement. - Charles J. Givens

The most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffrey F. Abert

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. - Tony Robbins

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. - Jordan Belfort

The only way of arriving at your farthest goal is to put your strength and enjoyment into arriving at your nearest. - Unknown

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. De Mille

The purpose of goals is to focus our attention. The mind will not reach toward achievement until it has clear objectives. The magic begins when we set goals. It is then that the switch is turned on, the current begins to flow, and the power to accomplish becomes a reality. - Unknown

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. - Denis Waitley

There is no achievement without goals. - Robert J McKain

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today. - Noel DeJesus

This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything. - Scott Reed

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig 

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Zig Ziglar

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius

With hope, dignity, a little madness and some belief in the self, we can make great strides toward achieving our goals. - Leo Buscaglia

Without a goal, a life is nothing. Sometimes the goal becomes a man's entire life, an all-consuming passion. - Unknown 

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. - Fitzhugh Dodson

Without goals, you will end up going nowhere, or, you will end up following someone else’s map! Develop your map today – set your goals and focus! - Catherine Pulsifer

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - Les Brown

You may not accomplish every goal you set – no one does – but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. - Les Brown

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. - Charles C. Noble

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Goals determine what you are going to be. - Unknown
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. - Les Brown

Gold - Quotes

All that glitters is not gold. - English Proverb

Gold gathers more than a shovel. - Edward Counsel

He who wakes up early finds gold. - Hungarian Proverb

If a man could make gold, he would incur a double danger, first, from his own avarice, and secondly from the avarice of other men. The first would make him a slave, or the second a prisoner; for princes and potentates would think a gold maker a very convenient member of their exchequer. - Charles Caleb Colton

Poor is the man who can boast of nothing more than gold. - William Scott Downey

Second-hand gold is as good as new. - Ken Alstad

True gold fears no fire. - Chinese Proverb

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling. - Johann Kaspar Lavater

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, his cares are double. - Francis Quarles

Golf - Quotes

Golf is a good walk spoiled. - Mark Twain

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer. - Arnold Palmer

Golf is typical capitalist lunacy. - George Bernard Shaw

It's a game of constant adjustment and the guy that adjusts the best is the best player. - Gene Littler

Gossips - Quotes

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So, does gossip. - Vera Nazarian

A gossiper is the devil's postman. - Croft Pentz

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbours are going to talk about you anyway. - Felder Rushing

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. - Richard Steele

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. - George Eliot

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts. - Anna Godbersen

Gossip is like military intelligence and it is strategically vital to have up to the minute reports on other people’s loyalties and antagonisms. Shutting your ears to gossip is all very noble until you discover to your cost that someone you thought was a friend has made a business alliance with an enemy and is dutifully feeding all your gossip into his computer. - Unknown

Gossip is putting two and two together, and making it five. - Ivan Panin

Gossip is saying behind their back what you would not say to their face. Flattery is saying to their face what you would not say behind their back. - Unknown

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid. - Walter Winchell

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. - Joseph Conrad

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. - Frank A. Clark

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. - Earl Wilson

Gossip isn't scandal, and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. - Phyllis McGinley

Gossiping, like proud words, are arrogant, intolerant and savagely ignorant of the great fundamental truth – simplicity, humility and ordinary human decency. - Unknown

It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip. - Filipino Proverb

It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenceless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things. - Lawrence G. Lovasik

More people are run down by gossip than by automobiles. - Unknown

Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more. - Unknown

People who talk and gossip and make it their business to be a busybody may never discover the truth about themselves for they will be too busy talking about others. - Unknown

So live that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them. - Will Rogers

The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's secret virtues, but only about their secret vices. Accordingly, most gossip is untrue, but care is taken not to verify it. Our neighbour's sins, like the consolations of religion, are so agreeable that we do not stop to scrutinise the evidence closely. - Bertrand Russell

There is one unbreakable rule in the gossip game. You must never betray your friends. - Unknown

There is, it seems, no such thing as idle gossip. It may be the vocal form of bitch-craft, but it has its humanitarian side too. It enables us to keep track of each other. - Unknown

Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others, destroy themselves like the serpents in ant-hills. - Chanakya

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. - George Washington

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them. - Cato the Elder

Who brings a tale takes two away. - Irish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Unknown