Thiago didn't score a lot of goals for Bayern, for example, but what he did was so important in the team, as important as Robert Lewandowski, who scores 50 goals.

I'm a forward, and I need to score goals, but I want to play at a higher level.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

I'm playing for the team. If I've got four goals, it's because the team are playing well.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.

"My father said Don't grow up to be a woman and what he meant by that was a housewife ... without any interests."

Aim at the sun and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic yet it seems like it's a great secret.

If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.

Many people associate resolutions with failure because they've broken promises to themselves so many times before. They don't want to fail again, and as a result, they avoid setting goals. For the...

Pride would have destroyed me. But I was able to cheat on pride. If I could cheat on pride, then I could cheat on success too. Both were never meant to be good lovers. Jovita Efehi Obadolagonyi

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

...goals not bathed in prayer or brought in humility before the Lord turn out to be downright useless. They don't go anywhere. They don't accomplish anything.

Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.