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Goals Quotes

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Some people steer by the light from the stars, while others steer by the lights from each passing ship.

Some people focus on what they’re going through; champions focus on what they are going to.

Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened.

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.

– Wayne Oates

Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter’s rule: Measure twice, cut once.

Personal drive and energy will rise to meet (but not necessarily exceed) GOALS. If your goal is to get married, drive and energy will stop at the wedding. If your goals is to have a successful MARRIAGE, drive and energy will continue after wedding.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

– Walter Elliott

People tend to confuse their purpose (What do I love to do?) Their ideals (How am I comfortable behaving?) And their desired results (What can I achieve?)

– Robin Hirschberg

People don’t PLAN to FAIL – they just fail to plan.

People are like nails, they lose their effectiveness when they lose their direction.

One never goes as far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.

– E. Joseph Cossman

Obstacles are those nasty things we encounter when our goals are unclear.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one rises to low expectations.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

– Elmer G. Letterman

Never give up. Never give up. Never, never, never.

– Winston Churchill

My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

– Louis Pasteur

Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.

Most people are content to let “perfect days” happen at random rather than PLAN for them.

Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity.

Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it, and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.

– Lucille Ball

Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Life by the yard can be hard, But life by the inch is a cinch.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you’ll never have to worry about your feet.

Just thinking about exercise does as much good for the body as dreaming about eating a nutritious meal.

– Grant M. Bright

Keep adding little by little and it will become a big heap.

Keep one eye fixed on the details; the other, on the horizon.

It’s the little things you do that make the big things happen.

– Michael Dooley

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