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ZIG ZIGLAR A goal properly set is halfway reached.
UNKNOWN I would set up a goal and when I broke through that one, I'd set up another goal.
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DAVID MOYES I set a goal when I was a tenth grader and to achieve it is amazing.
ISAIAH DAHLMAN I set a high standard for myself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA One of my teenage daughters has set a goal to read the great classics. I wish I'd done that at her a...
ALAN ROBINSON (After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to ...
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COURTNEY BEASLEY I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
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FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY The girls really want [playoffs] this year. That's the goal they've set and they're going for it.
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ILONA ANDREWS You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
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ALEXA VEGA Set the goal, adjust the goal when needed, and stay locked in on the goal.
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CHUCK ADAMS We haven't set it as a specific goal.
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RICK YANCEY People die. Love endures.
RICK YANCEY And I open to him, a flower to the rain.
RICK YANCEY You know how we tell the good guys from the bad guys? The bad guys shoot at us."
Best les...
RICK YANCEY But we fall only that we might rise, Alfred. All of us fall; all of us, as you say, screw up. Fallin...
RICK YANCEY Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
RICK YANCEY The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer ca...
RICK YANCEY Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under...
RICK YANCEY Love is forever. If it wasn't, it wouldn't be love. The world is beautiful. If it wasn't, it wouldn'...
RICK YANCEY That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.
PHILIP YANCEY We're looking forward to getting to the championship game, but our thoughts will be about winning (t...
WAYNE YANCEY You've got to give Carl Junction a lot of credit. They came out and kept getting after us.
YANCEY LITTLE Our hearts, the war.
Her body, the battlefield.
RICK YANCEY There is a light that glimmers along the darkening edge of an infinite horizon. In that light the he...
RICK YANCEY Are pervs only pervs if you don't find them attractive?
RICK YANCEY She's hurt and still imagines I'd worry about him for even a second ? I touch her shoulder. Her touc...
RICK YANCEY If the world breaks a million and one promises, can you trust the million and second?
RICK YANCEY