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Goals

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.--Joe Paterno (New York Times)
Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.--J. Hawkes
As you attempt to make big differences, remember to appreciate the small differences. And remember that you don't always have to reach the goal you set in order to make a difference.--Win Borden
An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one-thousand percent!--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.--Brian Tracy (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 138)
Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - July 1, 2003)
A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.--Mary Lou Retton
Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.--Danielle Fotopoulos
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.--Epictetus (Discources)
Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.--Willis Reed
A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement.--Gary Ryan Blair
Goals are dreams with deadlines.--Diana Scharf Hunt
Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.--O. Carl Simonton
Goals are the barriers that limit our ability to reach our true potential.--David V. Ellison
Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve.--Denis Waitley
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.--Mary Catherine Bateson (Composing a Life)
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.--Mary Kay Ash
The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.--Michelangelo
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.--Seneca
If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.--Dan Dierdorf
If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?--Basil S. Walsh
If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.--Laurence Johnston Peter
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.--Brian Tracy
If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.--Zig Ziglar
An ignorance of means may minister
To greatness, but an ignorance of aims
Make it impossible to be great at all.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Casa Guidi Windows)
In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.--Ari Kiev
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.--Marshal Ferdinand Foch
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.--Ben Stein
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.--Brian Tracy
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.--Helen Keller
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.--Ursula K. LeGuin
It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.--Og Mandino
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.--Benjamin E. Mays
It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.--Anonymous
It's hard to stay committed...to stay in touch with the goal without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal, the world.--Nancy Hogshead
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.--Elbert Hubbard
Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.--Ernestine Schumann-Heink
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.--Jim Rohn
The most important thing about having goals is having one.--Geoffrey F. Abert
Most of us think having a list of priorities is a sign of a motivated, serious person. But there is one essential flaw in this perspective. We are not guaranteed a future; and even if we were we could not live in it. All we have is now.--George Lawrence-Ell (The Invisible Clock)
My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.--Stephen Hawking (Washington Post 4/15/88)
No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.--Bette Davis
No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.--Michel de Montaigne
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.--Nido Qubein
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
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.--Stephen A. Brennan
People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals a purpose remains constant for life.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
People who say life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile... Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project... Always have something ahead of you to "look forward to"--to work for and to hope for.--Maxwell Maltz
Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.--Ralph Vaull Starr
Setting goals provides man with an excuse to stop before he has exhausted all efforts to reach his maximum potential.--David V. Ellison
She saw objectives, not obstacles.--Wallace Stegner (Crossing To Safety)
Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.--Margaret Sanger
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.--Eileen Caddy
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.--David Joseph Schwartz
The timid and fearful first failures dismay,
but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.
He values his failures as lessons that teach
The one way to get to the goal he would reach.--Edgar A. Guest
To realize our goals, we must first imagine them fully.--Siew Hwa Beh
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - July 1, 2003)
The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.--Arnold J. Toynbee (A Study of History)
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.--Henry David Thoreau
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.--Zig Zigler
Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.--Apocrypha - Ecclesiasticus
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.--Greg Anderson (The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.--Les Brown
You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.--Percy H. Johnson
You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.--William E. Holler
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.--Kathy Seligman
You can't reach your goals if you haven't set any--Karen's addition
You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.--Seneca
Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.--Alvin Toffler