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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Thomas Carlyle

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5

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Robert Browning

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Eileen Caddy

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7

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

André Gide

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8

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Earl Nightingale

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9

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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10

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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11

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Les Brown

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12

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Horace

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13

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Les Brown

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14

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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15

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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16

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Brian Tracy

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17

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Zig Ziglar

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18

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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19

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Franz Kafka

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20

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Mary Kay Ash

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21

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. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Tony Robbins

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22

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Les Brown

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23

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Les Brown

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24

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Robert H. Schuller

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25

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Denis Waitley

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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28

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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29

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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30

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca the Younger

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31

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca the Younger

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32

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Albert Einstein

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33

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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34

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Lewis Carroll

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35

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Henry Kissinger

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36

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

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37

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

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38

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Oprah Winfrey

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39

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

John D. Rockefeller

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40

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Arnold H. Glasgow

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41

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

Alfred A. Montapert

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42

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

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43

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Albert Einstein

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44

It is better to finish something than begin.

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45

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

John Ruskin

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46

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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47

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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48

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Jim Rohn

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49

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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50

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Ronald Reagan

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51

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Dag Hammarskjöld

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52

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Michel de Montaigne

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53

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

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54

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Michel de Montaigne

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55

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Peter Drucker

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56

Of toiling, uncheered and alone, That wins us the prizes worth earning, and leads us to goals we would own.

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57

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

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58

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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59

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca the Younger

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60

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Tony Robbins

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61

People who say that 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 hope for.

Maxwell Maltz

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62

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Earl Nightingale

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63

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

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64

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Earl Nightingale

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65

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Les Brown

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66

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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67

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins

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68

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Euripides

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69

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

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70

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Earl Nightingale

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71

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Robert Collier

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72

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

J. P. Morgan

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73

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

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74

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

Joseph Joubert

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75

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Tony Robbins

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76

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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77

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Claude M. Bristol

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78

Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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79

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Mark Caine

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80

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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81

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Madame Swetchine

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82

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Ben Stein

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83

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

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84

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

David J. Schwartz

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85

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Edward Young

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86

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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87

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

W. Clement Stone

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88

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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89

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde

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90

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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91

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Zig Ziglar

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93

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Thomas à Kempis

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94

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 life.

Greg Anderson

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95

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Matthew Prior

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96

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

John Dewey

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Lewis Carroll

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Zig Ziglar

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100

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Bruce Lee

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

It is better to finish something than begin.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Of toiling, uncheered and alone, That wins us the prizes worth earning, and leads us to goals we would own.

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.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

People who say that 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 hope for.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

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.

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.