Adjusting Goal Quotes & Sayings

I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. — David Hume

Envy someone an' it pulls you down. Admire them and it builds you up. Which makes more sense? — Elvis Presley

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself. — Valerie June

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. — Pablo Neruda

I feel like I made it already, because I got already what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. — Lloyd Banks

We each make our solo voyages to deep, expansive waters. Alone in our contest with the wider world, we test our mettle and seek our trophies, promotions, compliments, and accolades. We strive to be needed and to thereby know that there is a reason for us. We seek to be told we are good because we're too unsure of ourselves to know. Yet often we remain so focused on our neediness that we forget the creatures - human and otherwise - we're drawing into the vortex of our own passion play. All of us have compulsive loves we must forbear. We forget to see that we can engage the world without harming it. And although we fish for approval, the challenge is: to capture our prizes while bringing more to the world than we take. — Carl Safina

Sometimes war is necessary in order that we can finally find peace. Sometimes fear is necessary for the soul to find its path again. — Paulo Coelho

She was one of those women who are never handsome till they are old, and she had had the wisdom to embrace the beauty of age as early as possible. — George Eliot

Although he was curious, she was also a little bit scared. — Sy Walker

The Spirit of your child bewails the dead, and mingles with the dead - dead hopes, dead fancies, dead imaginings of youth,' returned the Bell, 'but she is living. Learn from her life, a living truth. Learn from the creature dearest to your heart, how bad the bad are born. See every bud and leaf plucked one by one from off the fairest stem, and know how bare and wretched it may be. Follow her! To desperation! — Charles Dickens

When, instead, your goal is to focus on the process and stay in the present, then there are no mistakes and no judging. You are just learning and doing. You are executing the activity, observing the outcome, and adjusting yourself and your practice energy to produce the desired result. There are no bad emotions, because you are not judging anything. — Thomas M. Sterner