Do you want to be right more than you want to know the truth? It’s the truth that set me free. Acceptance, peace, and less attachment to a world of suffering are all effects of doing The Work. They’re not the goals. Do The Work for the love of freedom, for the love of truth.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.
—George Washington (1732–99) American Head of State, Military Leader
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals—that is, goals that do not inspire them.
—Tony Robbins (b.1960) American Self-Help Author, Entrepreneur
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
—Barack Obama (b.1961) American Head of State, Academic, Politician, Author
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission.
—Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American Author
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 (1942–2009) American Cancer Therapy Pioneer
Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, Grow, Grow”.”
—The Talmud Sacred Text of the Jewish Faith
A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, “There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.”
—Ted Williams (1918–2002) American Baseball Player, Manager
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
—Louis Pasteur (1822–95) French Biologist
Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.
—Jacob Gelt Dekker (1948–2019) Dutch Businessman, Philanthropist, Writer
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
—Cecil B. DeMille (1881–1959) American Film Producer, Director
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.
—Denis Waitley (1933–2025) American Speaker, Consultant, Self-help Pioneer
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
—Anais Nin (1903–77) French-American Essayist
The goal of truly rich people is to have massive wealth and abundance.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never be happy. Happiness doesn’t come from living a lukewarm life, always wondering what could have been. Happiness comes as a result of being in our natural state of growth and living up to our fullest potential.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Usually obstacles are the things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
—Hannah More
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on.
—Tom Morris
Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
—Les Brown
Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
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 (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. 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 (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
—Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur
Knowing your destination is half the journey.
—Anonymous
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