Worthy Goals Quotes

#1. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

Ezra Taft Benson

#2. Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

Michael Mandelbaum

#3. A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a region free of Iranian nukes are worthy goals that should be able to withstand public scrutiny in every Middle Eastern capital.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

#4. The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#5. Being sick successfully is not included in society's panoply of worthy goals.

Kaimana Wolff

#6. Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.

Deepak Chopra

#7. We can become the masters of our own destinies by practicing self-discipline and by setting worthy goals that will lead to higher ground so that we can become what our heavenly father wants us to become.

M. Russell Ballard

#8. Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.

Ezra Taft Benson

#9. True success is there when a person has the ability to lose himself or herself in the search of knowledge and wisdom by using love, joy, and gratitude. On the other hand, societal success comes from the progressive realizations of worthy goals.

Debasish Mridha

#10. Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

Wes Fesler

#12. Reducing health costs and increasing access to health care are worthy goals that every Member of Congress should support.

Jim McCrery

#13. No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.

Dan Miller

#14. Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.

Deepak Chopra

#15. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life. Servants of Hood, one and all.

Steven Erikson

#16. Along that straight and true path there are other goals: missionary service, temple marriage, Church activity, scripture study, prayer, temple work. There are countless worthy goals to reach as we travel through life. Needed is our commitment to reach them.

Thomas S. Monson

#17. My definition of success is: 1.) The progressive realization of worthy goals 2.) The ability to love and have compassion 3.) To be in touch with the creative source within.

Deepak Chopra

#18. Stop looking back on your life and wishing it was different because pursuing that kind of mental activity will never lead to any worthy accomplishment. Think about what 'can be' rather than what 'was'.

Hina Hashmi

#19. I always thought the name of Utah's major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word "desert." But no, Deseret is the "land of the honeybee," according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

A. J. Jacobs

#20. No God, no fraud! (For people who do wrongs in the name of God)

Saurabh Sharma

#21. Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.

Rod Stewart

#22. A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.

John Lloyd

#23. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, assessing a Polish crisis in 1984, said: "There's continuing ground for serious concern and the situation remains serious. The longer it remains serious, the more ground there is for serious concern.

William Zinsser

#25. We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Ayn Rand

#26. Never take yourself too seriously. Learn to let go and let the words flow.

Caron Kamps Widden

#27. As president, my father will take on the bold and worthy fights. He will be unafraid to set lofty goals, and he will be relentless in his determination to achieve them.

Ivanka Trump

#28. The only argument this president needs to persuade Americans is that sacking Saddam is necessary for the security of America and the West, of civilization as we know it. All those other goals are nice, worthy even, but irrelevant to the job immediately at hand.

Wesley Pruden

#29. I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

John Wooden

#30. Kind of where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you guys were younger & you were dating, that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing you know? You got to quit on a good note.

Buck Brannaman

#31. Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

James MacDonald

#32. First, where the law is the major source for bioethics, morality is too easily confused with legality and moral questions too quickly reduced to legal questions. Moreover, the law is better at
telling us what not to do than at providing ends and goals worthy of our humanity.

Allen Verhey