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In order to be written into History
—  one must first change it.
To me, Hell isn’t a place; it’s a state of mind. It is a psychological self-imprisonment in which fear is the warden. It is a result of not living in alignment with your goals, dreams, and purpose. It is to find yourself in the endless emotional agony of, “What if?
— Steve Maraboli
The sky is never falling...things will work out, they ALWAYS work out. Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Edge
Stop using, "easier said than done", as an excuse to not change! Bringing your life to a higher level is challenging; get over it and rise to the challenge!
— Steve Maraboli
Stop blaming other people and circumstances for killing your dreams. The truth is; we tend to talk ourselves out of acting upon our dreams. Most dreams die of suicide, not murder.
— Steve Maraboli
If you can see the vision of your goal clearly, you can plan and map effectively, and navigate efficiently.
— Steve Maraboli
Don't stop after you reach your goals
—  aim to surpass them!
One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.
— Émile Durkheim, On Suicide: A Study in Sociology
MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them.
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
There are always periodic opportunities to give up, while every single moment is an opportunity to persevere.
— Dean F. Wilson
MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them in secret, when another year just begins as a matter of fact, it's easy to fail to appreciate what a miracle it is to have more time. So, I suppose, it feels different right now because this time you're paying attention
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
MURRY: Resolutions are a complete waste of time. They're just this meaningless ritual, empty promises we make and break within hours of each other.
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
Where there's a will, there's a way. Perhaps tomorrow, if not today.
— Michele Jennae
Short wins does not guarantee long victories.
— Krishna Sagar
MURRY: Why do we even celebrate the New Year? It's just this arbitrary quirk of how we measure time in years, right? Midnight tonight is the very same transition from day to day that we do every 24 hours. But this thing in my hands, it feels real in a way the numbered calendar box never does. Why? What makes midnight tonight any different?
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
If a person is living out his Personal Legend, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Change words like difficult/impossible/unrealistic to words like challenging/fun/daring/exciting, and then get back to working/playing/competing/winning
— Jamie Valentin
What you need to know is this: before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as we've moved toward the dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
NOEL: And even when I don't stay up until midnight, I still enjoy the tradition of New Year's resolutions. What can I say? I like setting personal goals and challenging myself to improve. I suppose I could do it on any day of the year, but the New Year is as good a day as any. It's a fresh start.
— Hillary DePiano, New Year's Thieve
If someone tells you that you can't do it, then prove to yourself that you can. You don't need somebody else's word for it, you just need yours.
— Exlibris_keagan
Stay focused, accept everything as perfect and keep moving forward toward the direction of your goals.
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School
You don't have to know how you are going to accomplish your goals, you just have to know that you will.
— Mike Basevic, No Limits, Mastering the Mental Egde: The Class They Don't Teach You in School
Goals that are not frightening are not worth having.
— Tina Brown
Who told these people with dreams, goals and ambitions they could take time off?
— Darnell Lamont Walker
In essence, individuals more concerned with portraying their own uniqueness were more likely to select an alcoholic beverage not yet ordered at their table in an effort to demonstrate that they were in fact one of a kind. What these results show is that people are sometimes willing to sacrifice the pleasure they get from a particular consumption experience in order to project a certain image to others. When people order food and drinks, they seem to have two goals: to order what they will enjoy most and to portray themselves in a positive light in the eyes of their friends.
— Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
On his thirteenth birthday he had seen a film in which the central character was a painter who, unable to sell his work, grew cold and hungry as he went from one unsuccessful interview to the next; eventually he had become a vagrant, sleeping in the streets of the city where once he had walked in hope. Hawksmoor left the cinema in a mood of profound, terrified apprehension and, from that time, he was filled with a sense of time passing and with the fear that he might be left discarded on its banks. The fear had not left him, although now he could no longer remember from where it came: he looked back on his earlier life without curiosity, since it seemed to lack intrinsic interest, and when he looked forward he saw the same steady attainment of goals without any joy in their attainment. For him, the state of happiness was simply the state of not suffering and, if he cared for anything, it was for oblivion.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Results fuel belief which causes us to take more action and get more results.
— Todd Stocker
Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.
— Rob Liano
We are all ghosts," Morris Klapper said at last. "We are conceived in a moment of death and born out of ghost wombs, and we play in the streets with other little ghosts, chanting ghost-rhymes and scratching to become real. We are told that life is full of goals and that, although it is sadly necessary to fight, you can at least choose your war. But we learn that for ghosts there can only be one battle: to become real. A few of us make it, thus encouraging other ghosts to believe it can be done.
— Peter S. Beagle, A Fine and Private Place
There is a big difference between being centered and being self-centered
— Lolly Daskal
If you are setting a goal without understanding the reason for it, then maybe you should reevaluate the goal in general.
— Tina Brown
Get out of your own way... stop the paralysis by analysis... dream your dream... then, WAKE UP and bring it to life!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The only way to get to where you want to go is to ruthlessly evaluate your where you are now. The key here is that your biggest obstacle in life is always yourself—not external factors.
— Isaiah Hankel, Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives
One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the same time taking a long-range view, scanning the scenery as far ahead as I can. I am, after all, a long distance runner.My time, the rank I attain, my outward appearance - all of these are secondary. For a runner like me, what's really important is reaching the goal I set myself, under my own power. I give it everything I have, endure what needs enduring, and am able, in my own way, to be satisfied. From out of the failures and joys I always try to come away having grasped a concrete lesson. (It's got to be concrete, no matter how small it is.) And I hope that, over time, as one race follows another, in the end I'll reach a place I'm content with. Or maybe just catch a glimpse of it.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
There’s only one kind of girl I can tolerate being, and it is not the Girl Who Gives it All Up for Love.
— J.C. Lillis, We Won't Feel a Thing
Don’t fear experience. Embrace each one as a gift, a teacher, a step to get closer to where you want to be and who you want to become.
— Toni Sorenson
The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.
— Michelle M. Pillow, The Barbarian Prince
You are the magical fairy that makes things happen in your life. Don't wait for someone else to make your dreams come true.
— Natalie Rivener
One's longing is not so much there for sense-gratification, profit and self-preservation, instead one's karma is there for no other purpose than inquiring after the Absolute Truth.
— Ramesh Menon, Bhagavata Purana
Dharma – the foundation of all human goals be,Refers to obligations, conduct, moral duties;- 25 -
— Munindra Misra, Goals of Life
Kama purusharth advocates desires fulfilled be,Albeit in awareness, without harming anybody;
— Munindra Misra, Goals of Life
If Brahman an infinite ocean, then Atma a wave within be,Ocean not different from its waves, the waves as ocean be;They are but one and the same very similar in actuality,So Brahman and Atma are one and the same in reality.960
— Munindra Misra, Goals of Life
Whatever you want in life, do one thing every day which brings you a little closer towards attainment of your goal.  Even if it means spending a few minutes. No matter how small the effort is, if done consistently, it will start compounding and before you know it, you would have already realized your dream.
— Zeeshan Raza, U Turn Your Life: 5 Simple Steps to Achieve Success – Starting Now!
Living in Supreme Influence, your language is neutral and/or moving toward your vision rather than moving away. In other words, you speak about what you do want, not about what you don't want.
— Niurka, Supreme Influence: Change Your Life with the Power of the Language You Use
The only people who experience no resistance are the unambitious and the dead. If you feel no resistance in your life, you need greater goals or you need to check your pulse. Life and movement come with resistance. Don’t be discouraged by it, be strengthened by it.
— Steve Maraboli
One can never rack up his goals mere through hard-work, there is a thing in this world which is known as self-confidence.
— M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier
Stop putting off today madam
—  you'll find that all those forgotten tomorrows have piled up into a bunch of old yesterdays.
When your resources are focused on what has been you cannot create all that can still be.
— Toni Sorenson
The difference between greed and goals is what you are prepared to handle...
— Garrett McCoy
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au
— Neil Gaiman
Keep going even when the going is slow and uncertain.Make your dream your prayer and your service.Don’t wait for recognition. Let it find you working. Romanticize authenticity instead of perfection.
— G.G. Renee Hill
When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Maybe not here and now, but somewhere, someday.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Your definition of a good life does not have to look like everyone else thinks it should. Whatever feels right for you, whatever aligns your inside with your outside, that's what you should spend your time doing.
— G.G. Renee Hill
Everything begins with failing. If you stop to fail, then your failing to stop, to try and try again, and bring success.
— Anthony Liccione
Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Goals are only ever a guide; a winding, changing path. It's your heart that will really keep you on tack... and nourished along the way.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
World is full of people waiting to pursue their passion, if given a chance. Unfortunately, the "chance" will not be given, it needs to be earned.
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
The difference between superlative pie and a wish for cake is crust. Understand that pie is a generous but self-centered substance. It likes attention, not affection. Do not hug your crust. Do not rub its back or five its high. Don't fuss with refrigerators every step oft he way. Keep the water and butter cold, and remember what a wise baker once said: The goal is pie.
— Kate Lebo, A Commonplace Book of Pie
Sometimes we make being happy so difficult.And being thankful such a chore. Starting the day like a job we hate. Beginning it like swallowing ten tablespoons of devil made cough syrup.Because, somehow, along the way, we forget that being alive and healthy and happy are noble goals – or just good ideas.And that the opposite of being alive is being dead. What a choice.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource.
— Kristen Lamb
When you have a goal, there will also be a result.
— Mohiro Kitoh, Kare no Satsujin Keikaku
Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.
— Kitt Weagant, Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women
You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. Still wondering whether it is worth giving a shot at your dreams?
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
Whenever you think seriously to achieve something, just take one advise : Think on Paper
— Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom
If your dreams and goals get derailed, they're not dead. Derailed simply means off-track. Pick 'em up and put 'em back on again.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Just like going to the moon made us learn more about earth, achieving your goals will make you learn more about yourself and get fascinated.
— Samer Chidiac
Starting a new way is never easy so...keep starting until the start sticks.
— Tim Fargo
I chase goals, not girls.
— Amit Kalantri
We're going to change. We're going to throw out what's worse in usand keep what's best. But come hell or high water, we three will sticktogether, all for one, one for all. We're going to grow, Cathy,physically, mentally, and emotionally. Not only that, we're going toreach the goals we've set for ourselves. I'll be the best damneddoctor the world's ever known and you will make Pavlova seem like anawkward country girl.
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing a complicated life into a simple goal. All you have to do is take one step at a time, place one foot in front of the other, and refuse to turn back until you’ve given everything you have.
— Ken Ilgunas, Walden on Wheels: On the Open Road from Debt to Freedom
Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
There are two types of people in this world- those who pull out of bed each morning at the thought of breakfast and those who are driven by ambition. The former succeed in satisfying hunger pangs and the latter accomplish their life goals.
— Roopleen
The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
You'll never reach your destination if you stop to throw stones at every dog that barks.
— Windston Churchill
In constant view keeps mightily true an honest resolve to do.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Went to bed with a dream.Woke up with a purpose.
— JohnA Passaro
When you make a solid commitment to restructure the spiritual vitality in yourself, there is no end to the healing that you can experience in all areas of your life
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, The Magnificent Weight Loss System
Make a list of goals for every year, tick them off & reward yourself when you achieve each one. Will give much discipline in your life.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
— Alan Shepard
Don't wait for a future moment
—  the time is NOW! The life of your dreams awaits... UN-ASS the couch and go get it!
A goal is a specific objective that you either achieve or don't sometime in the future. A system is something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of happiness in the long run. If you do something every day, its a system. If you're waiting to achieve it someday in the future, it's a goal. If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure. All I'm suggesting is that thinking of goals and systems as very different concepts has power. Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good everytime they apply their system. That's a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction.
— Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds
—  harness them.
Never allow reality to get in the way of your dreams.
— Mark W. Boyer
Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision.
— Turcois Ominek
Obsession and desperation for your goal, gets you the goal.
— Amit Kalantri
Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the dream―all of it from beginning to forevermore. You're on that journey right now; hence, you're living the dream. Enjoy it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
So he said, 'What would you like to do? What is your desire really?' I said, 'Doctor, I don't think you're going to find this very healthy and clear, but I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends.
— Allen Ginsberg
True, luck may rule over parts of a person's life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there's a WILL-- much less a strong will to swim thirty laps or run twenty kilometers -- there's a way to overcome most any trouble with whatever stepladders you have around.
— Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes
Procrastinating to embark on your passion is a risky business, because tomorrow may never come!
— Alex Zar
The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater capacity.
— Stella Payton
Success is not certain until you are obsessed by your goal
— Vijay Dhameliya
There's no point in being committed to a vision if you're not equally committed to making it a reality.
— Tim Fargo, Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
Dreamers dream the dream, Artists live it.
— Mark W. Boyer
Evidently one endures anything, provided one has a goal.
— Sándor Márai, Embers
We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself
—  if they don’t sound slightly impossible then they aren’t set high enough.
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Squeeze this amazing human experience for all its nourishing juices. Take action towards the life you see for yourself. Don’t just look to the sky and beg for it
—  put your feet on the ground and create it!
Actions without a dream serve you no purpose, Dreams without action merely pass the time, however, a Dream set into motion….the future has no boundaries.
— Mark W. Boyer
Peace, love and beauty are goals shared by every human heart. The question is whether our minds recognize them as such.
— Raheel Farooq
When you are touched by a calling, answer on the first ring. As time passes the volume decreases until it is silenced forever by our allotted time.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
While I do not believe in imperative goals or ends, I do believe in a returning endgame. When you reach one end, it should be for conception. When you reach the next end, it should be for immortality. One should reach the state of existing and non-existing at the same time. One's goals and endgame should be metaphysical and pataphysical, stepping over the edge of logic and reason. If you are not reaching to step above... then you belong at the bottom.
— Lionel Suggs
Th e average person spends much of his or her lifetime buildingfinancial security, but it can be lost, never to be regained. That’swhy you need to carefully assess your definition of financialsecurity and make sure it is realistic for the goals that you haveset. You can take the necessary steps to put that plan in place,and never lose that financial security, and to pass on your valuesand assets to the coming generations.
— Christopher K. Abts
Having a goal and having a dream are different.
— N.N. Porchezhiyan
Set your end goal...the steps in between - is your path
— Gino Norris, Stress Diary Journal
Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.
— Shannon L. Alder
Value all relationships for the lessons they teach. Make sure you learn the lessons well. If not you will repeat those mistakes over and over.Focus on the kind of relationship you do want! Surround yourself with people who manifest those characteristics. Avoid and eliminate negativity at all cost.Become a producer of that which is positive.Look for the good in every situation and praise it. talk about it & be about it. Be about only good things.Create and manifest around you joy and peace and happiness. Let the presence of God be your model. Gods' kingdom consists of 3 things, righteousness, peace and joy in Gods words. When you become a positive producer, you will begin to attract what you produced ---- positives!
— Stella Payton
So long as we do not know definitely what we want, our forces will be scattered, and so long as our forces are scattered, we will accomplish but little, or fail entirely. When we know what we want, however, and proceed to work for it with all the power and ability that is in us, we may rest assured that we will get it. When we direct the power of thinking, the power of will, the power of mental action, the power of desire, the power of ambition, in fact, all the power we possess on the one thing we want, on the one goal we desire to reach, it is not difficult to understand why success in a greater and greater measure must be realized.
— Christian D. Larson
It is never wise to run any race but your own.
— Tim Fargo
Imagine what your life would be like if you were completely uninhibited by fear, pride, or procrastination. What would you be capable of? Anything.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
The key to success is having no qualms about failure.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
You can't be creative without criticism. If your life is without critics then maybe you are painting your life's masterpiece with only a broken brown crayon.
— Shannon L. Alder
It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.
— Richard G. Scott
To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for.
— Ellen J. Barrier
To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
All success comes down to this . . . action
— Rob Liano
Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Without a goal or an obstacle you're just running through a green cricket pitch for the rest of your life.
— Chloe-Jasmine Whichello
No one stands at the beginning of a race and then finds himself at the end having never taken a step forward. And if that were to happen—the sweat and struggle avoided—what stories would he have to tell? The goal includes the journey
—  it's all part of the dream.
I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.
— Abeba Habtu, Become Courageous Abeba: A Story of Love, Loss, War and Hope
Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us.
— Ellen J. Barrier
You can’t reach the destination which you don’t know. So what’s the use of hard work when you don’t know where it’s taking you?
— SuccessCoach Nilesh, Go for Success: Be a Champion by 6 Effective Steps
Unless you realize that there is a sun beyond comprehension of this limited mind... the life shall remain confined within a Box...
— Dinesh Kumar, Destiny Re scripted
If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
— Richie Norton, The Power of Starting Something Stupid: How to Crush Fear, Make Dreams Happen, and Live without Regret
Stop throwing away days, weeks, months, and years by simply day-dreaming about what you wish your life would be.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.
— Nido Qubein
They say it's impossible.I refuse to believe it. The journey may be difficult and the desired end unlikely. My patience and commitment may be tested by something that won't happen overnight. It may be that I veer off the path or quit before reaching my goal, but that doesn't mean it is impossible.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
We have the ability to write the blueprint for our own goals, and decide how we want to pursue them. If we allow others to do it for us, we won’t achieve our full potential to be the best we can be.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.
— Paradise Kiss
Get-rich-quick schemes are for the lazy & unambitious. Respect your dreams enough to pay the full price for them.
— Steve Maraboli
Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.
— John-Talmage Mathis, I Deal to Plunder - A ride through the boom town
She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to
— Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
The fulfillment of your dreams lies within you and you alone.When you understand and accept this then nothing, or no one can deny you greatness.
— JohnA Passaro
Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Your employees' ability to take satisfying and productive steps towards career goals is directly proportionate to their self-awareness.
— Julie Winkle Giulioni, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want
Big dreams and perseverance are a powerful duo.
— J.P. Stonestreet
To set goals and pursue them, we must have a desire to dream of things some would think to be impossible.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Hope is the foundation for which all successful goals are built upon.
— Ellen J. Barrier
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as achievable.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs.
— Habeeb Akande
The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.
— Shannon L. Alder
Always having what we wantmay not be the best good fortuneHealth seems sweetestafter sickness, foodin hunger, goodnessin the wake of evil, and at the endof daylong labor sleep.
— Heraclitus, Fragments
I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Finally there are those who saw at once that the question was a trap. There is no answer. Instead of wasting time grappling with that trap. They decide to act. They look to their childhood and look for what filled them with enthusiasm then and disregarding the advice of their elders, devote their life to it. Because enthusiasm is the sacred fire. They slowly discover, their actions are linked to a mysterious impulse beyond human knowledge. And they bow their heads as a sign of respect for that mystery and pray that they will not be diverted from a path they do not know, a path which they have chosen to travel because of the flame burning in their hearts. They use their intuition when they can and resort to discipline when intuition fails them. They seem quite mad. And sometimes they behave like mad people. But they are not mad. They have discovered true love and will. And those two things reveal the goal and the direction that they should follow. Their will is crystalline, their love is pure and their steps determined. In moments of doubt or sadness they never forget: I am an instrument, allow me to be an instrument capable of manifesting your will. They have chosen their road, and they may understand what their goal is only when they find themselves before the unwanted visitor. That is the beauty of the person who continues onward with enthusiasm and respect for the mystery of life as his only guide. His road is beautiful, and his burden light. The goal will be large or small, it can be far away or right next door. He goes in search of it with respect and honor. He knows what each step means, and how much it costs in effort and training and intuition. He focuses not just on the goal to be reached but on everything happening around him. He often has to stop because his strength fails him. At such moments, love appears and says: You think you're heading toward a specific point, but the whole justification for the goals existence lies in your love for it. Rest a little. But as soon as you can, get up and carry on. Because ever since your goal found out that you were traveling toward it, it has been running to meet you.
— Paulo Coelho
Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes.I don’t need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive.I don’t need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy.And, I don’t need to chase someone else’s ideal of what I should be looking like.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN
— Eileen Granfors
It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .
— Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery
The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
The skinnier and more toned I got, the fatter I felt.The more in shape I got, the more out of shape I felt like I was.And the more I made myself look good to the masses, the less attractive I felt like I was.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
I’ve been chained to my bathroom scale for two decades now. I’ve used the number on my scale to tell me if I’m valuable or not. I’ve let the number on my scale destroy many beautiful opportunities in my life such as scheduling family photos, having fun at the beach, or giving myself 100% in intimacy. I’ve let the number on the scale tell me if I should be confident in who I am. I’ve let the number on the scale tell me if I am worthy of kind thoughts from others. Ultimately, I’ve always let some ridiculous number on the bathroom scale tell me whether or not I should love myself.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
I enjoy a torture session on the rowing machine and I also enjoy my mom’s homemade peach cobbler. I enjoy flopping like that dead fish with hips that can’t lie in dance class, and I also enjoy ordering pizza with my kid, renting a movie, and downing popcorn while we share some special time together. I enjoy seeing how much I can lift at the gym and I also enjoy stuffing a fresh chewy chocolate chip cookie into my face when I’m having a hard day.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
My spirit mirrors the radiance of a clear, blue sky. With closed eyes I lift my face and smile, warmed from the core and from above. All hopes and dreams compete with this endless expanse of heaven, desiring the clock of eternity. I reach with my hands―frenziedly achieving―attempting to learn and do all. Yet I understand the humble truth; a drop of rain shall amount to my contribution among all the droplets in the vast ocean of human history. It is a pure and precious tear that seeps from my efforts....my exist
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Intelligence is the key to achieve your dreams.
— Jennifer I. Lim
If you don't know where you are going, you will surely arrive there.
— Ann D. Clark, Women & Recovery: Sex, Sobriety & Stepping Up: Practical Suggestions for Quality Living in Recovery
If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.
— Thomas J. Vilord
You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excitesyou and what scares you everyday, not bytrying to find your passion.
— Derek Sivers
We have to imagine our dreams becoming reality. We must keep pursuing them and reaching beyond for future achievements. We never stop dreaming as long as we imagine.
— Ellen J. Barrier
Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life.
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.
— Mark Matteson, Freedom from Fear
I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem.Watch me burn.Love always, Charlotte
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life “I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Do not postpone what's important to you simply because others don't share your priorities
— Hemal Jhaveri
When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.
— George Alexiou
Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.
— Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog
The BIG push means being able to develop and sustain momentum toward your goal; it is the process of actively replacing excuses with winning habits, the ultimate excuses blockers. Moreover, it is being willing to go to the wall for what you want or believe in, to push beyond your previous mental and physical limits, no matter what it takes.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You are successful when you accomplish the goals and dreams you set for yourself.
— Brenda Johnson Padgitt
Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
The journey of success requires a map for effective navigation. Establish a destination by defining what you want. Once you have a destination, take physical action by making choices that move you towards that destination.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
It is important for all of us to understand that free people are not governed by rules. Here at Hillsdale we are governed by goals, and then the rules are very broad.
— Larry P. Arnn
We’re a society that creates super heroes who aren’t really super heroes. They are just regular people who live in alignment with their goals and dreams. They don’t just talk about it, the LIVE it. You can choose to do the same.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Your actions must reflect your goals in order to experience true success. Don't just wish, DO! Don't just dream, BE! Let today be the day you create a plan and follow it.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Let today be the day you finally stop having a conflict between your actions and your goals. When you align your greatest intent with purposeful action, you create a universal symphony serenading your success!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
A sense of accomplishment comes when you have completed the tasks for the goals you have set for yourself.
— Brenda Johnson Padgitt
Be creative and daring in your dreams and the steps you take to bring them to fruition.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Do not question your ability or worthiness. God is a universe of purpose-driven balance. If you have been called to action, it is because you have it within you to rise to the challenge of your calling. Now, RISE to it!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Like a gift, beautifully wrapped at the foot of your bed each morning, today asks that you open it and enjoy everything inside. Exhaust yourself with all it has to offer!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Don’t let the agony, regret, or fog of yesterday blind you to the fact that each new day carries with it a plethora of opportunities to move your life into the right direction.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
My mother once told me, when you have to make a decision, imagine the person you want to become someday. Ask yourself, what would that person do?
— Barry  Deutsch, How Mirka Met a Meteorite
If you do what everyone else does, you will get what everyone else gets.
— Stephen Richards
Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.
— Stephen Richards
There is nothing more satisfying than having plans.
— Lalita Tademy, Cane River
It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.
— Charles Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle
Nobody ever talks about the pyramids that weren't built, the books that weren't written, the songs that weren't sung. Stop letting your fear condemn you to mediocrity. Get out of your own way. Your dreams are a poetic reflection of your soul's wishes. Be courageous enough to follow them. There is no greater time than now to experience the full power of your potential. Make this the day you take the first step in the beautiful journey of bringing your dreams to life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
You have to set the time frame for accomplishing your goal. If you don’t, it may take forever to reach your destination and you may get tired and change your focus. Consequently, to help you obtain and keep the sense of urgency that will help you stay focused, you have to set a deadline by which the goal has to be achieved.
— Anna   Stevens, Turn Your Dreams And Wants Into Achievable SMART Goals!
when you shoot for the stars, you can't ever look back.
— Brittany Perloff, Starting Over