Anton Chekhov Quotes

Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

Anton Chekhov

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• I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Reason
  • Goals
  • Achieving

• Obviously, you want to help the team win in any way possible. If that's scoring goals, great.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Help
  • Team

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Myself
  • Goals
  • Season

• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Jewish sovereignty and governance over our ancestral home are, I believe, important goals that every Jew ought to support.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Home

• I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • God
  • Blessed
  • Successful

• Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Want
  • Goals
  • Go

• Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Great
  • Country

• I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Night
  • Effort
  • Winning

• History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • True
  • Path

• I like to tell young people to work hard for your goals and live in the moment.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Goals

• I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Believe
  • Child

• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • True
  • Religious

• There's a lot of goals I've set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I'm always setting goals for myself, and someday I want to be in the Hall of Fame.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Goals

• I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Happy
  • Goals
  • Search

• One of my goals is definitely break into film, and I want to do action movies as well.

  

  Derek Theler
  • Action
  • Goals

• When he's shooting well, I encourage him. We're trying to measure personal achievement with team goals.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Goals

• No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

  

  Christopher Dawson
  • World
  • Nature
  • Society

• We overcome the accuser of our brothers and sisters, we overcome our consciences, we overcome our bad tempers, we overcome our defeats, we overcome our lusts, we overcome our fears, we overcome our pettiness on the basis of the blood of the Lamb.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • Bad

• I think what more and more Americans are concluding is that Donald Trump is not a man who is qualified to be president, and he is not fit to be commander and chief.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • President
  • Americans
  • Donald Trump

• Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Goals