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The victory of success is half won when one gains
the habit of setting goals and achieving them
Og Mandino
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible
Tony Robbins
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
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
Williams Jennings Bryan
Don’t hold yourself back and always know that
you are capable of anything you set your mind to
Author Unknown
Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing
Theodore Roosevelt
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
can never go back to its old dimensions
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can't go back and change the beginning,
but you can start where you are and change the ending
C. S. Lewis
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers.
But above all, the world needs dreamers who do
Sarah Ban Breathnach
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.
Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing
and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.
Maya Angelou
Goal setting is so powerful that the very act of thinking about your goals makes you happy,
even before you have taken the first step toward achieving them
Brian Tracy
The more reasons you have for achieving your goal,
the more determined you will become
Brian Tracy
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us
Jim Rohn
Take each new day you are given to better yourself
Amy Temple
Use your imagination to make your dreams come true
Amy Temple
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask.
Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it
Jules Renard
The great secret of getting what you want from life
is to know what you want and believe you can have it
Norman Vincent Peale
Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough,
or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay
Rudyard Kipling
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do,
but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it
Jodi Picoult
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction
than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward
Louis Sachar
Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire.
That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it.
Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere
Marlo Thomas
Starve your distractions and feed your focus
Author Unknown
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden
Find the good and praise it
Alex Haley
Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection
Mark Twain
Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn't give you credit
Author Unknown
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do
John Wooden
Don't be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My goal is not to be better than anyone else,
but to be better than I used to be
Wayne Dyer
Plunge boldly into the thick of life and
seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated,
set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner
Les Brown
Only those who will risk going too far can
possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot
Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen,
not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy
Learn from the past, set vivid and detailed goals for the future and
live in the only moment of time of which you have any control now
Denis Waitley
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually
encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.
They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
Bertie C. Forbes
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to
accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it.
The time will pass anyway; we might just as
well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Earl Nightingale
Take pride in what you do. The kind of pride I'm talking about
is not the arrogant puffed-up kind; it's just the whole idea of caring - fiercely caring
Red Aurbach - Professional Basketball Coach
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers
on a single object, can accomplish something; whereas the strongest,
by dispersing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything
Thomas Carlyle
Desire is the key to motivation, but it is the determination and
commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to
excellence that will enable you to attain the success you seek
Mario Andretti
The person with the most flexibility has the best
chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires
Tony Jeary
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction
John F. Kennedy
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one
thing necessary to a worth while achievement
Henry Ford
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals
Zig Ziglar
Every achiever that I have ever met says,
'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'
Dr. Robert Schuller
If you wait until all the lights are 'green' before you leave home,
you'll never get started on your trip to the top
Zig Ziglar
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results,
just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill
All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it,
work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality
Earl Nightingale
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose
Theodor Seuss Geisel
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
Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can't
Jerry Rice
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves
Dale Carnegie
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory
Freidrich Engels
It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants.
The question is - What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau
When you focus on what's wrong, you get more of what's wrong.
Conversely, when you focus on what's right, you get more of what's right
Gina Mollicone-Long
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind.
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat
Napoleon Hill
Shun idleness. It is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals
Voltaire
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once,
whether you're ready or not, to put it into action
Napoleon Hill
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
Christopher Columbus
People are like sticks of dynamite.
The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit
Mac Anderson
Well done is better than well said
Benjamin Franklin
You earn the right to expect recognition by giving it! It's that simple
Eric Harvey
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish
Jean De La Fontaine
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless.
You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life,
something greater than yourself
Denis Waitley
Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way
Eileen Caddy
I move forward in my life every day, even if it's only a tiny step,
because I know that great things are accomplished with tiny moves,
but nothing is accomplished by standing still
Zig Ziglar
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender
Vince Lombardi
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn.
Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service
Earl Nightingale
All of the great achievers of the past have been visionary figures;
they were men and women who projected into the future.
They thought of what could be, rather than what already was,
and then they moved themselves into action, to bring these things into fruition
Bob Proctor
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem,
if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things
Channing Pollock
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly
Dr. Robert Schuller
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights
illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
Nido Qubein
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward.
They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary
Cecil Beaton
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become
the best that you can become
Harold Taylor
I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall, you experience
a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham
Achievers rarely, if ever, see a problem as permanent,while those
who fail see even the smallest problems as permanent
Tony Robbins
Ambition is the spur that makes men struggle with destiny.
It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater
Donald G. Mitchell
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it
Vince Lombardi
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we
find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to
conquer and goals to achieve
Maxwell Maltz
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement,
achievement, and success have no meaning
Benjamin Franklin
Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars.
They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement
Denis Waitley
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence
Helen Keller
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that.
A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now.
Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Nolan Bushnell
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out if they've got a second.
Give your dreams all you've got. You'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you
William James
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it
Margaret Thatcher
A wish is a desire without energy
Paramanhansa Yogananda
You accomplish victory step by step, not by leaps and bounds
Lyn St. James
There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared
believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances
Bruce Barton
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it
Michael Jordan
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome
Samuel Johnson
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement
Henry Ford
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers
Orison Swett Marden
Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily.
Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on.
If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.
Keep believing and keep on keeping on
Norman Vincent Peale
Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear
Denis Waitley
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve.
Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving
singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader
Paul J. Meyer
I am a big believer in the 'mirror test'.
All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell
the person you see there, that you've done your best
John McKay
Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible,
and suddenly you are doing the impossible
St. Francis of Assisi
A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart.
Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision
Nido Qubein
To show your true ability is always, in a sense, to surpass the limits of your ability,
to go a little beyond them: to dare, to seek, to invent; it is at such
a moment that new talents are revealed, discovered, and realized
Simone de Beauvoir
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade
Tom Peters
Never mistake activity for achievement
John Wooden
The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself
Denis Waitley
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing
can be done without hope and confidence
Helen Keller
Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely
not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot
Wayne Gretzky
Who works achieves and who sows reaps
Arabian Proverb
Every great work, every great accomplishment,
has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision,
and often just before the big achievement,
comes apparent failure and discouragement
Florence Scovel Shinn
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving
Albert Einstein
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead
of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless
potential instead of my limiting past
Stephen Covey
I have always struggled to achieve excellence.
One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve
something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying
Greg LeMond
What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve
Napoleon Hill
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans
Max Ehrmann
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows;
it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts
Booker T. Washington
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold
Howard Schultz
A gem cannot be polished without friction
Chinese Proverb
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as
what you become by achieving your goals
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible
Mary Baker Eddy
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of
aspiration and expectation
Jack Nicklaus
Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise
Harvey Mackay
The key to achievement lies in being a 'HOW' thinker, not an 'IF' thinker
Author Unknown
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to
accomplish what at first seemed impossible
Nido Qubein
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it
Sir Winston Churchill
If we did all the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves
Thomas Edison
It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer,
the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it
Vince Lombardi
Most of the things worth doing in the world have been
declared impossible before they were attempted
Earl Nightingale
Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit
Conrad Hilton
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish,
but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything
Napoleon Hill
Each of us was born with wings and has the ability to go farther than we ever
thought possible, to do things beyond our wildest imaginings
Barbara Stanny
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence
Helen Keller
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
Jeremy Kitson
The single common denominator of people who
achieve great things is a sense of destiny
Author Unknown
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that
he really wants to and makes up his mind to do.
We are capable of greater things than we realize
Norman Vincent Peale
To accomplish great things, we must not only act,
but also dream; not only plan, but also believe
Anatole France
The greatest achievement is to out perform yourself
Denis Waitley
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation
Jack Kinder
All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed
Pat Cash
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished,
we must expect to employ methods never before attempted
Francis Bacon
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Weak desire brings weak results
Napoleon Hill
There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference
between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the
children of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements
Napoleon Hill
To achieve the impossible, one must think the absurd; to look where
everyone else has looked, but to see what no else has seen
Author Unknown
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit
Harry S Truman
Desire is the starting point of all achievement
Napoleon Hill
I've found that often, just when you think you've hit a wall,
you experience a breakthrough that takes you to new heights in accomplishment
Stedman Graham
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