Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Archery

  'Elegiac Verse' (1880)

• Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.44

• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

• Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Dream

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

• In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Running

• The nimble lie
  Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
  We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth
  Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,
  And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike
  Till it has reached the goal.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Truth, Lying, Moving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

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