Goals

54 quotes.

• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Attributed to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

• 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

• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do!

  Anonymous

• Always do what you are afraid to do.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

  Norman Vincent Peale

• Carpe diem, quam minimum credula a postero. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

  Horace

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

  Will Rogers

• Failures are divided into two classes --those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.

  Anonymous

• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

  Henry David Thoreau

• Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow.

  Tony Robbins

• Great opportunity to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

  Sally Koch

• Hitch your wagon to a star.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.

  Dr. Jonas Salk, Developer of the first polio vaccine

• If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.

  Cher

• If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

  Publilius Syrus

• It is difficult to say what is impossible For the dream of yesterday, is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  Robert H.Goddard

• It may be that those who do most, dream most.

  Stephen Leacock

• It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

• Know your limits, but never accept them.

  Anonymous

• Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine...[your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

  Marsha Sinetar

• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

  Louis D. Brandeis

• Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement -and we will make the goal.

  Jerome P. Fleishman

• Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

  Ruth E. Renkel

• No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

  William Blake

• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

• Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'

  S. I. Hayakawa

• One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

  Lewis Carroll

• Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.

  Karen Ravn

• Set priorities for your goals. A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed, the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.

  Robert J. McKain

• Some wo(men) have thousand of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

  Willis R. Whitney

• Sometimes you have to put your foot down to get a leg up.

  Dave Weinbaum

• The Largest Room in the World, is the Room for Improvement.

  Unknown

• The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

  Anonymous

• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

  Chinese Proverb

• The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.

  Sir Heneage Ogilvie

• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

• The top of the hill is but the bottom of another mountain.

  Ankit Jamwal

• The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

  A.J. Cronin

• There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.

  Arthur P. Stanley

• There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.

  David Johnson

• To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold tothat action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

  Michael Hanson

• We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

  William Osler

• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King Jr.

• We will either find a way, or make one.

  Hannibal

• What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.

  Robert H. Schuller

• Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

  Michael Landon

• When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in.

  Aeschylus

• When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

  Cicero

• Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.

  Henry Ford

• You can sit around and wait for the good things to happen to you, you can go out and make them happen.

  Anonymous

• You cannot discover new ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

  Anonymous

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