“Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.”
— Sam Walter Foss (not Thomas Paine)
“The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough to inspire your creativity and ignite your passion.”
— Anthony Robbins
“Begin with the end in mind’, is based on the principle that all things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things.”
— Steven R. Covey
“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”
— Robert H. Schuller
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir your blood to action. Make big plans, aim high in work and hope.”
— Daniel Burnham
“No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.”
“Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what is heaven for?”
— Robert Browning
“Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”
— John F. Kennedy
“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
— Thomas Edison
“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Complete mental and physical preparation has to do with sacrifice and self-discipline. And that comes from within. Start by setting modest goals which are meaningful, but attainable. For example, every Sunday night write down four things that you want to accomplish for the following week, and then make sure that seven days later when you make up your next list, all four items have been crossed off. These small but meaningful completed tasks should generate much self-confidence as time goes by.”
— Arthur Ashe
“The dreamer and the realist were meant to be collaborators. Through the balance of their conflicting pressures, we forge an ordered progress in which we shall reach out towards new goals.”
— B.Z. Bokser
“In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.”
— Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862), philosopher and writer
Cited in BITS & PIECES, October 17, 2001
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker
“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”
— Denis Waitley
“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.”
— Og Mandino
“Give yourself something to work toward — constantly.”
— Mary Kay Ash
“An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear focused goals.”
— Brian Tracy
“A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.”
— Harvey Mackay
“The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935), Supreme Court Justice, B&P
“To be what we are and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the end of life.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.”
— Harold B. Melchart, QFTM 4/26/03
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
— Yogi Berra, MFTM 5/10/03
“If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”
— Henry Kissinger, QFTM 5/31/03
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll show you a man who will make history; show me a man without a goal and I’ll show you a stock clerk.”
— J.C. Penney, merchandiser
“If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.”
— St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), mystic and poet, B&P 7/21/03
“I always believe where I’m going is so much more exciting than where I’ve been.”
— Della Reese, television actress
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