Short Goal Setting Quotes

#1. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.

David Brooks

#2. Don't thank me for telling the truth when it would have been mercy to lie to you.

Marissa Meyer

#3. Did you really want to die?" "No one commits suicide because they want to die." "Then why do they do it?" "Because they want to stop the pain.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#4. Lack of action is the reason why an unwanted situation persists.

Steven Redhead

#5. Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.

Charles F. Glassman

#6. Sex is the way to consummate love, no the way to make someone to love you

Linda Alfiori

#7. Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

Francis Collins

#8. I think I was supposed to play jazz.

Herbie Hancock

#9. To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#10. But don't you understand?' she said urgently. 'The demon was hiding all the way down in sublevel three.

Edward Cox

#11. Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

Jonathan Swift