“Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.”
Orison Swett Marden
“In these parts you have to keep busy; otherwise you’re no-account. Here you just can’t sit, you have to be going someplace. It’s not easy for people like us.”
Franz Hessel
“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A goal without a timeline is just a dream.”
Robert Herjavec
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Henry Ford
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The path of one who shrinks from arriving at his goal will easily take the form of a labyrinth.”
Walter Benjamin
“Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand. Every minute needs to count.”
Gary Vaynerchuk
“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”
Walt Disney
“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.”
Jack Canfield
“You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.”
Nassim Taleb
“Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.”
Mark Esper
“A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim.”
Walt Disney
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”
Benjamin E. Mays
“The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michelangelo
“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
“There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Nelson Mandela
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
Les Brown
“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.”
Bo Bennett
“Those who talk should do and only those who do should talk.”
Nassim Taleb
“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.”
Lou Holtz
“The going is the goal.”
Horace Kallen
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
Jim Rohn
“I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.”
Warren Buffett
“The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
Michelle Obama
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.”
Aldous Huxley
“If we have a goal and a plan, and are willing to take risks and mistakes and work as team, we can choose to do the hard thing.”
Scott Kelly
“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”
Brian Tracy
“It’s harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb. Continue to seek new goals.”
Pat Summitt
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.”
Albert Einstein
“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”
Tony Robbins
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”
Tim Ferriss
“You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.”
Booker T. Washington
“99% of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The competition is thus fiercest for realistic goals.”
Tim Ferriss
“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.”
David Ogilvy
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
Ernest Hemingway
“One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.”
Michael Korda
“It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Greatness is setting ambitious goals that your former self would have thought impossible, and trying to get a little better every day.”
Tim Ferriss
“By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands—your own.”
Mark Victor Hansen
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
Bruce Lee
“You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.”
C.S. Lewis
“Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
Henry David Thoreau
“For to reach a port, we must sail—sail, not tie at anchor—sail, not drift.””
Franklin Roosevelt
“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”
Michael Phelps
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
Orison Swett Marden
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
Pablo Picasso
“To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the “what is next” of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.”
Mark Twain
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
Jim Rohn
“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”
Bill Copeland
“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.”
Les Brown
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact…those people have goals.”
Seth Godin
“You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.”
Steve Garvey
“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do. ”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. And there’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them.”
Jim Rohn
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