Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
If you're bored with lifeâ you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do thingsâyou don't have enough goals.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem . . . Problems are like landmarks of progress.
To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals-that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Keep your goals away from the trolls.
People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?
Understand that most problems are a good sign. Problems indicate that progress is being made, wheels are turning, you are moving toward your goals. Beware when you have no problems. Then you've really got a problem... Problems are like landmarks of progress.
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.
We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.
. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themesâthe values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature.