Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

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• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• My own personal goal is I just hope to still write songs and kind of let that sustain me as a job. If I could never have a 9-to-5 job, and making a living doing this, it'd just be incredible.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Job
  • Hope
  • Goal

• It was never my goal to be an actor.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Never
  • Goal
  • Actor

• The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Country
  • Goal
  • Accept

• It is natural for us, as human beings, to look forward. Our eyes naturally look ahead. In this sense, we are made for moving toward a goal.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Eyes
  • Moving
  • Goal

• 'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Different
  • Success
  • Goal

• I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • House
  • Food

• The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to stay in the relationship. But if it doesn't work, you can't force those things.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Work
  • Relationship
  • Goal

• I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ?

  

  Wale
  • Goal
  • Need
  • Lifestyle

• We are all human beings, and we all have insecurities, but it's about being healthy and happy with yourself. I'm not perfect, and I will indulge in pizza and sweets on occasion. The goal is to make the majority of your decisions good for your body. So listen to your body, and treat it like your temple.

  

  Jacqueline MacInnes Wood
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Certain

• I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care. You’ve got to make a sincere attempt to have the right goals to begin with, then go after them with appropriate effort, and remember that you can’t really achieve anything great without the help of others.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Great
  • Remember

• The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Work
  • Goal

• Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
  • Three

• Daily, I examine myself in three areas. Have I done my best when doing things for others? Have I been trustworthy in my dealings with my friends? Have I revised the lessons I have been taught?

  

  Zengzi
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Goal

• If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Time
  • Action
  • Focus

• Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Goal

• My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • World
  • Kids
  • America

• My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Goal
  • Obsessed
  • Seeks

• While I am in this world, I am resolved that no vexation shall put me out of temper if I can possibly command myself. Even old age, which is making strides towards me, shall not prevail to make me peevish.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Age
  • Myself

• It’s good to hear those songs performed so well - congrats to the band.

  

  Alan Lancaster Status Quo
  • Band
  • Songs
  • Hear

• When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Time
  • Women
  • Employees

• Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

  

  Thomas Eakins
  • Goal
  • Enthusiasm