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“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.” Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
“Whatever your goal is you will never succeed unless you let go of your fears and fly.” Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It
“Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“Our goal is more modest: we simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“To make America the greatest is my goal, So I beat the Russians, and I beat the Pole, and for the USA won the Medal of Gold. Italians said, 'You're Greater than the Cassius of Old.'” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and never was I able to turn back, any more than a record can...” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“If we walk far enough . . . I am sure we shall sometime come to some place.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“In truth the way matters but little; the will to arrive suffices.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Accustom thyself as much as possible on the occasion of anything being done by any person to inquire with thyself, for what object is this man doing this? But begin with thyself, and examine thyself first.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Preparing for the future must begin, as always, with our children. We need to set for them new and more rigorous goals.” Ronald Reagan, State of the Union Address
“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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