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Good posture can be beneficial to your health.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Posture and Social Status...During the 18th century in European and American society, aspects including station in life, status and dress could easily identify those of financial means. In fact, the garments of this era would hold the wearer in a position that would support and require proper posture. Women, and sometimes men, wore stays in order to shape the torso. Among the more privileged, even children wore stays since people believed these improved their posture and enhanced straight spinal growth. Certain movements were constrained by the cut and design of many garments, including details of the sleeve and back that would hold the person in proper posture.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Good posture is the correct alignment of body parts supported by the right amount of muscle tension.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Think of good posture as your body’s projection of a positive message to those you meet.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
It is still relevant today to project a confident image through good body posture.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki
Why just work and live for a happy retirement? Why not work and live for a happy life?
— Jonathan Anthony Burkett
Great goals always come from inspiration.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
— Mark Hawthorne, A Vegan Ethic: Embracing a Life of Compassion Toward All
Boys keep working over your goals these girls ain't going anywhere.
— Moosa Rahat
Only now I have added "living green" to the list. And that's when I realize: there is no ending to the story. There is no "I lost my 70 pounds and my house is completely green." It's an ongoing process. There is no end game.It's like success. You think that at some point you make it and then it's easy. Nope. The hard work never goes away. In some ways it's harder. No coasting.
— Jeff Garlin, My Footprint: Carrying the Weight of the World
Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and tough decisions, in order to achieve something bigger.
— Saad Salman
Progress is the only road going there.
— T Jay Taylor
Your posture can have a great deal of influence on your personal presentation and image, revealing your attitude toward yourself and others.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
Good posture is important for health reasons, as well as for your appearance, because it reflects your personal attitude.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
More than attitude, posture has also been used throughout history to communicate one’s status in society.
— Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
I learn by going where I have to go
— Theodore Roethke
The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting.  Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.
— Marianne Williamson
Life is a miracle and your most important goal in life is to protect this miracle. You have one more goal which is as important as this one and that is to protect the other miracles, the lives of others!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Managing a goal is the best way to guarantee reaching it.
— Asuni LadyZeal
Aim deliberately at goal.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Are you willing to self -sacrifice to achieve your goals?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a chain of events; a journey. Tomorrow's opportunities are a reflection of today's decisions .The good thing is, tomorrow never ends. Every new day comes with a chance to secure tomorrow
— Asuni LadyZeal
Who doesn't enjoy a little gardening? As we plant the seeds and remove the weeds we reap a wonderful harvest of blessings. What are the weeds? Anyone or anything that sucks the nutrients from the seeds we have planted. The seeds are our goals, desires, good thoughts and feelings. good works and deeds anything that uplifts us. If we don't keep up on our weeding then our garden will die.
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures: Recognizing the Divine Role That Opposition Plays in Life's Quest for Success
Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped
— Anubhav Mishra
At times, it is better to "just do it" than to "do it right". One reason new year resolutions don't work is because we expect too much from ourselves. Rush, meet your deadlines, you can always continue from where you stopped next year.
— Asuni LadyZeal
Never ask me to reach for the moon when all I want is to hold your hand." -- Fidelis O Mkparu, author of 'Love's Affliction
— Fidelis O. Mkparu
You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say: 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's ever been built.' You say, "I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. You do that every single day. And soon you have the greatest wall that's ever been built." - Will Smith
— Sam Thomas Davies, Unhooked: How to Break Bad Habits and Form Good Ones That Stick
A life without goals is like flotsam that is governed by the tides and winds of fate.
— Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
With grace you can realise your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
— Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Stop obsessing about where you invest your money.Focus instead, on where you invest your time.
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
You may not have covered your set tracks but it’s never too late to start.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
The secret to living your life to its potential is to value the important stuff above your own comfort. Therefore, the critical first step to executing well is creating and maintaining a compelling vision of the future that you want even more than you desire your own short-term comfort, and then aligning your shorter term goals and plans, with that long-term vision.
— Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year
Struggle only when if its absolute necessity, if you will struggle on every step you can never reach up to the goal.
— Bijendra Kumar, Three Jobless Freaks
There are things in life you hope to do some day - like ride in a hot air balloon or go to Paris- and there are things that you know you will never do because, in a nutshell, the desire isn't there.
— Alice J. Wisler, How Sweet It Is
Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips.
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
Set out to be the person you know you can be. Thinking about it, and talking about it is the first step. If you can imagine it for yourself then you can do it. Take action!
— Ron Baratono
I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway on Writing
The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.
— Mark W. Boyer
What about you? What are you going to be?” I knew immediately I shouldn’t have asked. His smile faded, and he looked down at his hands in his lap. I’d about had enough of tiptoeing around his illness. “How do you expect God to heal you if you don’t even believe it?” I spoke firmly to make sure my own heart got the message as well. “I believe that you, Matthew Doyle, are going to be fine someday. So when I ask you what you want to do with your life, I ask cause I know you’re going to have a life! I’m tired of all this moping around waiting to die malarkey.” He raised his eyebrows and pushed himself forward in the chair. “I know what you believe, Ruby. You been saying it since the day you got here. And I ain’t getting any better. You’re just putting me in a position of disappointing you, and I can’t hardly stand that. Don’t you think I want a life?” “I don’t know. Do you?” “Of course I do!
— Jennifer H. Westall, Healing Ruby
If I didn't have enormous dreams, I wouldn't have come this far!
— Mary Sage Nguyen
He said little about his dream but he nourished it in his heart as the best place for a dream to grow.
— Elizabeth Yates, Amos Fortune, Free Man
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
— C.S. Lewis
I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
What might be your current goal can motivate you in some situations. For like when you priority something and you have loose ends on it, it will make your back itch.
— Alberto D. Bautista
4 Don’t Die™ Principles:•	Change your awareness and your perspective changes.•	You teach what you need to learn.•	You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you cannot do both.•	Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.
— Andrea T. Goeglein, Don't Die Waiting to Be Brave
Imagine a tiny ant on the back of a massive African elephant. No matter how diligently that ant marches east, if the elephant he sits upon travels in the opposite direction, the ant will end up farther west than his starting point. Similarly, we will find ourselves receding from our goals if our conscious and subconscious minds are not aligned.
— Vince Poscente
I was promising myself strength.I had to write it, say it, make the effort and fake it before I actually believed I could do it.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you’ll rebuild your life in a few short years.
— Kevin J.  Donaldson
I was the director of my life, it was already true, and I would soon lead myself to my dreamed-of destinations.It was the task of my one thousand miles of solitude.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
You will be what you really want to be.
— Debasish Mridha
A clear purpose will unite you as you move forward, values will guide your behavior, and goals will focus your energy.
— Kenneth H. Blanchard, Collaboration Begins with You: Be a Silo Buster
I believe that there is potential in everyone, and that everyone is capable of reaching their goals and dreams with the right focus, dedication and discipline.
— Dave Shepp
Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.
— Benny Lewis, Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World
Dreams are like holding on to a good book in your hands; you have the full story in your palms, but no matter how much you want to get to the end of the story, you have to go through all the pages first; and you are the writer.
— T.H Maloa
My vision of what God can do is nothing more than a fleeting glance of the backside of the ‘possible,’ while God is inviting me to the forefront of the ‘impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus
Motivation may be what starts you off, but it's habit that keeps you going back for more. Are your habits working for you or against you? Are your habits helping you to achieve your goals or hindering the process?
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
If your actions don’t reflect your goals… and your behavior doesn’t reflect your company’s vision… then you’re not a leader
—  regardless of what your title indicates.
Keep going. You're a mess and you're happy.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Beware of those who steer you away from your heart’s true happiness. It would make them happy to see you steer yourself right next to them, sitting with both your hearts bitter.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When will you open your eyes to the possibility of the world?
— Tony Curl
I opened my eyes today to a world that felt alien. For though things resembled the familiar, nothing was the same. Walls I once considered confining, crumbled at the slightest shove. Mountains that for ages had barred my view now faded, transparent. Meandering roads stretched out as straight as an arrow, void of stop signs. Obstacles no longer stood stationary. Pinnacles loomed within reach. Beasts were tame, bullies timid, wagging tongues all tied into knots, and in the palm of my hand glistened the end of a glorious rainbow. It took but a moment to realize that in my newfound sight, everything I’d ever longed for was accessible. Incredibly, the only thing that had really changed was the way I saw the world.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
What in your life needs to be consigned to the bin? Just make sure it's not your dreams!
— Tony Curl
This is why, if I may be forgiven a digression, I believe it is time for the black race to forget about rhetoric and instead show what we are capable of doing. The testing will surely go on for the next generation and the next, but each time we meet the test, we'll climb another rung of the ladder until finally we arrive at parity, having earned our place rather than pleading or demanding that it be given to us.
— Yvonne S. Thornton, The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story
How many good ideas have you let go because you didn't believe in yourself? You have to believe to achieve!
— Tony Curl
Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority. Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential.
— Tony Curl
I have no idea what to do, and everything is starting to feel dangerously hopeless. Hopelessness is not an emotion to be indulged. On the heels of hopelessness comes defeat, and even though everything seems pointless and impossible, I still want to win. Underneath my confusion and utter, bone-crushing fatigue, even though I don't know much of anything at all, I still know I want to win.
— Carolyn Lee Adams, Ruthless
Sometimes a goal in life we are striving for may seem dim or unreachable. Direction has suddenly changed so fast we’re left with aimless thoughts and confusion. Don’t be troubled! You’ve proved to yourself you have the drive. Your new direction will come with patience. Each of us need time to rest our heart and mind before we reach the next mountain.
— Ron Baratono
To achieve in life is A hard story, But that shouldn’t scare you.
— Auliq Ice
To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
— Auliq Ice
Your obstinacy towards your goals gives you ignition which leads to your success.
— omer dar
Too often, many people choose goals that are not inspiring and empowering to them
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
To have more empowering goals, look within
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
When you confront, you get goals faster.
— Sunday Adelaja
We can let our goals motivate and inspire us, but we don’t want to let them determine our happiness or self worth.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point.
— Harold B. Melchart
An ordinary teacher teaches how to accumulate information. A good teacher teaches how to assimilate information. A great teacher teaches how to stand up and turn every challenge into opportunities. An extraordinary teacher teaches how to be larger than life by following your own dreams, own goals and own instincts.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
We lie to reflect the aspirational goals that we unconsciously know we will not uphold.
— Cortney S. Warren, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
Struggle for Your Goals, because its too much better than Struggling for Your Life.
— Fahad Rashiq
The NFL determines your worth as a player, but only God knows your true worth. Players work long and hard through pain and suffering, injuries, and pushing themselves further than they imagined going—then poof ! A dream is gone. That kind of treatment can really mess with one’s self worth. Getting cut can be deemed a failure, the loss of a lifetime goal.Thankfully, as Christians our worth is not determined by mistakes ￼we’ve made, either accidentally or by stupid stuff we’ve purposely done. Neither is it determined by what anyone else thinks. Our worth is determined by what Jesus Christ has already done.
— Jake Byrne, First and Goal: What Football Taught Me About Never Giving Up
How responsible are you with what you are given? Are you the per- son who, when asked to do a job, can be counted on to get it done and get it done right? Don’t settle for just a field goal in life. Make the push for the last six inches and score a touchdown. Faithfulness, hard work, and dedication will gain the trust of others and take you further down the field.
— Jake Byrne, First and Goal
It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become?Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.
— Louis L'Amour
To turn the page to the next chapter of a more satisfying life-as-adventure, these steps that have proved fruitful for me -- when I've actually followed them.1. Find Your True North to Become More JoyfulFirst be clear about choosing a goal that rings true. Forget "should" or adopting someone else's goal for you.2. Picture Being Your HeroAfraid you will fail? Supplant your fear with a greater motivation. When you are tempted to fall back, picture how you'll feel when you succeed. ." Rather than talking about what you are giving up or how you might fail, reflect upon and discuss the benefits you clearly see.3. Surround Yourself With Mutual Support SystemsTo keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed - and who are also on a path of practice. Agree on shared and individual behaviors that reinforce your mutual support. The authors of Influencer found that is the only way to permanently change.4. Involve Your Senses To Stay On Your PathTie your goal for your new chapter to your frequent experiences. Write it down. Say it out loud. Associate it with things you see, hear, smell, taste and touch every day. Plant sticky messages on your bathroom mirror, your car dashboard and smart device screen. Smell your shampoo and connect it with living that chapter. Brush your teeth and feel the motion towards it.5. Notice Where You Get DetouredNotice your pattern of avoidance. What activities get you sidetracked? What time of day or day of the week is it most likely to happen? What else is happening that can numb you into avoidance? What colleagues and friends help or hinder you on your path? Conversely, when are your stronger moments?6. Plan A Grand RewardThe bigger the change, the larger the reward you deserve. Enable others who supported you, to savor it with you. Since behavior is contagious to the third degree, you don't know which friends, and friends of your friends' friends might be moved, by your example, to also turn the page to the next chapter of the adventure story they were meant to live.
— Kare Anderson, Moving From Me to We
Abundant evidence exists to prove that we are continually creating excuses to explain why we do not reach our goals.
— Andrea Goeglein
It is not important who the leader is. Its important where they lead you to.
— Amit Abraham
The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the ‘impossible’ that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you can't do both.
— Andrea Gogelein
Resurrect the dreams that you allowed to be killed by those who never dare to dream
— Saccheen Laing
Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?
— Marilyn L. Rice
Never let anyone distract your focus from accomplishing great opportunities in your life .
— Tawana Beecham
Winning and losing is not an external game. It is an internal battle over telling yourself the truth vs. lies regarding why you haven’t stepped into the life you dreamed of.
— Shannon L. Alder
Aim low and you won't be disappointed.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread
If you can't reach your dreams,If you can't achieve your goals,If you can't meet your plans,Least be happy each daySuccess is not an annual achievement,It's a daily achievement.
— Bradley B. Dalina
Knowledge only becomes wisdom, when it is utilized and produces fruit that makes it possibleto reach the goals that God has set.
— Sunday Adelaja
God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity to His children.
— Sunday Adelaja
Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.
— Richard Foth, A Trip Around the Sun: Turning Your Everyday Life Into the Adventure of a Lifetime
Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal.
— Sunday Adelaja
Management should have goals.
— Sunday Adelaja
Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.
— Richard Foth
A set and concrete term of attaining a plan mobilizes a man to fulfill it.
— Sunday Adelaja
God approves our life if we attain His goals.
— Sunday Adelaja
The aspiration to attain goals overcomes death
— Sunday Adelaja
God changes His time because His goals and tasks change.
— Sunday Adelaja
To accomplish your goals and purposes in life you must be constantly refreshed by Him.
— Sunday Adelaja
In order to have success, you have to concentrate on your goals.
— Sunday Adelaja
Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
— Eric Thomas
May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed...
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you.
— Robert Tew
Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.
— Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
You cannot pursue all your goals simultaneously or satisfy all your desires at once. And it's an emotional drain to think you can. Instead, you must focus on long-term fulfillment rather than short-term success and, at various points in your life, think carefully about your priorities.
— Eric C. Sinoway
The power to reach our goal is always in the moment. When the moment arrives, be ready to perform the action that will help you reach your goal, and be aware when the moment is now.
— Russell Eric Dobda
Without unreservedly surrendering myself to God, whatever place I might raise myself to remains nothing more than a step or possibly two off the hard basement floor of life, for of myself I can be utterly assured that I will never step out of the basement.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough, Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living
Travis: Happy anniversary,Pidge.Abby: One down, forever to go.
— Jamie McGuire, A Beautiful Wedding
Don't let a strong wind blow you over, take flight upon it.
— Rob Liano
Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination.
— Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
Any decision can be easier if you think carefully about your goals; the dimensions of yourself that are most important to you; your needs and wants; the specific costs and benefits associated with your choices; the commensurability of those choices; and whether certain goals should be sequenced instead of pursued simultaneously to give you a better chance of success. Instead of striving for work–life balance, or even worrying about juggling on the balance beam, use this framework to pursue your life’s work—holistically seeking both success and satisfaction.
— Eric C. Sinoway
Don't let their chaos distract you from your goals.
— Willi Way
If you don’t have something worth pursuing then life becomes dull and days become long
— Luthando Daniels
Short term goals are often based on dissatisfaction, and actions based on dissatisfaction will eventually lead to a life of unhappiness.
— Gudjon Bergmann, Yes! You Can Manage Stress
Doesn’t make any difference how hard the thing is or how much you want to do something else. Do the thing you first started and do it as well as you possibly can.
— Annie Roe Carr
To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams
You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.
— Shannon L. Alder
My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.
— Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up. 
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Something that is set can be broken, so are society standards and limits.
— Unarine Ramaru
Think of how far you've come," Maggie said softly. "And then ask yourself how much farther you wish to go
— Thrity Umrigar, The Story Hour
A goal will always tell you where you don't want to be.
— Shannon L. Alder
Discipline means choices. Every time you say yes to a goal or objective, you say no to many more.
— Sybil Stanton
Some of the people who would tell you that you wouldn't be able to accomplish your dream, are the same ones who would tell you that they knew that you would do big things in life. Please don't ever let anyone talk you out of your positive mental imagination.
I did not get to where I am backstabbing people. If you want what I have, you must earn it like I did.
— Andres Oliver
You can't be attending to your dream only when you perfectly feel like doing so. Its pursuit has to become a big part of your daily life.
If others benefit through you getting what you desire most,it will have a positive impact on the world and only then will every atom of your being work with the universe to help it come into fruition.
— Malti Bhojwani, The Mind Spa Ignite Your Inner Life Coach
When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn't match your life, you have pain.
— Shannon L. Alder
Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Don’t set your sights low, just because someone else has a limited view of life’s possibilities. One person's comfort zone may be another person's cage.
— Eleanor Brownn
The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.
— Shannon L. Alder
To avoid the cost incurred in pursuing great things we opt for ease and blithely abandon great things. The sheer recklessness of such a pathetically apathetic trade-off will eventually cost us a life squandered, which in the end is the greatest cost of all.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
How often do I stand in abject terror and raw trepidation before the impossible peaks that soar to impossible heights in front me, when God turns to me and calmly says “what mountains?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
That stormy day in the desert, however, much changed for me. We must have our goals, our dreams and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.
— Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
The more I accomplish, the more I know I'm capable of accomplishing.
— Tawny Lara
And how will you afford to buy them in the first place?""I shall save up.""But that will take you years and years and years," said the twins."I've got years and years and years," said Sophie.
— Dick King-Smith
I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy.
— W.J. Raymond
Your goals and dreams desperately need your consistent actions right at this very moment, and the future will surely judge and reward you based on how often and well you attend to them.
I started achieving a lot of things in a shorter period of time when I decided to start focusing on fewer goals, along with devoting more time and energy on them on a daily basis. Doing too many things all at the same time doesn't always result to productivity.
Do not get caught pursuing the goals of who you used to be instead of who you are.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
The more specifically you define your goals the more attainable they become.
— Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu
If you are yet to cross the victory lines of your endeavors, you definitely haven't done your best. There will always more left in you to give to your goals and dreams.
Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
— Peter F. Drucker
A steadfast heart does not stray from the path.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
— Denis Waitley
Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.
— CrimethInc., Contradictionary
Each of us has empty spaces in our heart that go through life being filled temporarily, by the various people we meet along the way. The trick is to find what needs to remain permanently filled in our soul and what needs to be filled occasionally through encounters.
— Shannon L. Alder
Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.
— Muse
It is far too easy to discover complacency in mediocrity. Success is rooted in extreme ambition, implanted by divine guidance, and is achieved long before others are able to see it. Surprise them all, but you know this…you are already there.
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals.
— Alcurtis Turner
Some people will try to talk you out of chasing your goals; not because they think you’ll fail, but because they are scared you’ll succeed.
— Steve Maraboli
As long as you have goals to accomplish in this life, you will not truly be complete.
— kamar brown
Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God's goal of the impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
They act as if their religion were a celestial gumball machine, taking no blame for personal failures because they won't manifest their will in the real world by working for their goals.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Constantly re-evaluating your purpose is the best way to ensure that you are pursuing the goals of who you are and not who you used to be.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
If it has to be it's up to me.
— Anonymous
Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.
— James Rozoff
A crafter's vision never completely survives the journey from mind to reality.
— Tag Cavello, Regions of Passion
By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.
— David J. Greer, Wind In Your Sails
Having a set of goals is a good thing for many people. But when a goal takes your focus off God and His daily intentions for you, it can cause trouble. Being driven by my plans can shift the focus of my heart from following God and being open to His unfolding invitations, to following only that which leads me closer to my desires. For me, I started falling into a trap of making plans each day around what I wanted to see happen. Anything that wasn’t part of my plan became a distraction and an unwelcome interruption.
— Lysa TerKeurst
A conviction borne of God amply possesses the potency and power to brazenly reach beyond the possible in order to topple the impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y.
— Onyi Anyado
When you decide to be all you can be you will be better for it
— Blake L. Higginbotham
Let go of your past. Start making history!
— Julie Connor, Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide
You experience true happiness when the things you desire rise up to the level of the things you deserve.
— Robert J. Braathe
I am what no one else is, and in the hands of God I can do what no one else does. And if I dare set such a truth in motion I will change my world.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Who told you that your journey was a thousand miles
— John Lomacang, Abandoned but Not Alone My Quest to Find the Mother Who Gave Me Away
Who told you that your journey is a thousand miles?
— John Lomacang
To find one’s purpose is to discover one’s worth, discern one’s direction, wholly dedicate oneself to the journey, and forge an unbending determination that I will not leave the world the way I found it. This week's blog outlines the finding of our purpose.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Achieve complete clarity as to what you intend to achieve, and develop a real 'knowing' of exactly where you would like to be in your life.
— Kevin Michel, Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
Shoulds can masquerade as high standards or lofty goals, but they are not the same. Goals direct us from the inside, but shoulds are paralyzing judgments from the outside. Goals feel like authentic dreams while shoulds feel like oppressive obligations. Shoulds set up a false dichotomy between either meeting an ideal or being a failure, between perfection or settling. The tyranny of the should even pits us against our own best interests.
— Meg Jay
I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you.
— Eleanor Brownn
Set your sights so high that even failure has in it an echo of glory.
— Anonymous
A person who values their goals actually values their achievements.
— Onyi Anyado
One of the things I’ve learnt about goals is people will write them or wrong them.
— Onyi Anyado
Most people just ‘hope’ to meet their targets, while few have clear and strong intention hence they achieve it.
— Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment
A goal is not just an object on a pitch
—  it is also a milestone on your journey of excellence.
You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.
— Rob Liano
A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.
— Onyi Anyado
It is unwise to waste in thought what could be earned and secured in action.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
A confident decision makes a lasting goal.
— Lawren Leo, Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization
Never forget why you should win or achieve your goals and dreams. Once you feel you are losing purpose in the process, remind yourself why you saw the need to begin in the first place, let that drive you.
— Unarine Ramaru
I would surmise that we must cherish the resources that God has given us to achieve a goal more than we cherish the goal itself. For if we fall victim to the pursuit of the goal alone, then the goal has suddenly become our god.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
There is no good envy, except the one that motivates us to reach higher goals and be better than the person we were yesterday.
— Ogwo David Emenike
Don’t let them fool you and tell you goals has to be unified before any partnership agreement. Be carefully concerned about unifying your values and principles, after that all will run smoothly.
— Sameh Elsayed
A dream is just as good, and will go as far as an action.
— Anthony Liccione
Have goals, Chase dreams, but do not let your happiness depend on their acheivement.
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
And speaking of options ,these kids [the ones who attend elite universities] have all been told that theirs are limitless. Once you commit to something, though, that ceases to be true. A former student sent me an essay he wrote, a few years after college, called "The Paradox of Potential." Yale students, he said, are like stem cells. They can be anything in the world, so they try to delay for as long as possible the moment when they have to become just one thing in particular. Possibility, paradoxically, becomes limitation.
— William Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
There are so many people that use 'following your dreams' as an excuse to not work. When in reality, following your dreams, successfully, is nothing but work.
— Brandon Stanton
One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity—not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification of the range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.
— Terri Apter, Altered Loves
In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.
— Jo Linsdell
Today, you can take an action that will lead you closer to your visions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Have faith in your abilities and stay committed to your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If the goal is what you want to achieve, then the purpose is why you want to achieve it. Without purpose, reaching your goal will have little or no meaning.
— Lawren Leo, Dragonflame: Tap Into Your Reservoir of Power Using Talismans, Manifestation, and Visualization
There are greater goals in life than material and sensual pleasures
— Imran Khan
A goal is a written plan.Write your dreams and visions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You can pick any life area to set goals for - it does not have to be the one where things are going bad.
— Eddie  de Jong, Goal Setting for Success
There's no such thing as a goal cast in stone. It should be a living thing that becomes a part of your life.
— Eddie  de Jong, Goal Setting for Success
You need alot of patient to keep working.It takes time for the goals to be realized.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
There are no right of wrong answers in goal setting. What works for you?
— Eddie  de Jong, Goal Setting for Success
Stay committed and dedicated to your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you say "Yes!" to your dream and do what you truly love to do, you are also transforming the world for the better.
— Cheryl Hamada, The Goddess Intuitive Group Guidebook
Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals. It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment...Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals...
— Manoj Arora, Happiness Unlimited: How to be happy always
You must have goals for your life. Do not fear take a bold step to realize your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Always do your best in whatever you do
—  set goals and seek challenges
When you forget about the how, go back to the why.
— Charlotte Eriksson
Take the challenge of your life.Reach out to your goals.There is no limit to what you can achieve.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Push yourself to the brink of exhaustion into the crossroads of excitement and anxiety. Embrace the risks taken, and never acknowledge the shadows of doubt that stretch across your path. It is only there where you will discover a personal success that exceeds the pictures painted in your dreams
— Carl Henegan, Darkness Left Undone
You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Leadership: Converting dreams into goals and goals into success.
— T Jay Taylor
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
— Venus Williams
To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.
— Wu Wei, I Ching Wisdom: More Guidance from the Book of Answers, Volume Two
the only realistic choice is to follow your dreams
— Ricky Yousuf
Today is all you have.Pursue your goals.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not.  Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things.  I can easily reach from A to B.  I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D.  And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals
—  they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.
You need to set and have goals for your life.
— Lailah GiftyAkita
Never stop having doubts. If you ever do, it will be because you’ve stopped moving forward, and at that point, God will step in and pull the rug out from under your feet, because that is His way of controlling His chosen ones, by making sure they always follow their appointed path to the end. If, for any reason, we stop, whether out of complacency, laziness, or out of a mistaken belief that we know enough, He forces us on.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Don't give up.I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
— Cameron C. Taylor, 8 Attributes of Great Achievers
Those focused on the future don't complain about their past
—  those complaining about their past aren't focused on their futures.
To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
There is great power in goals and dreams.
— Cameron C. Taylor, 8 Attributes of Great Achievers
A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
As part of an effort to prod college seniors to get tetanus shots, a group of students was given a lecture meant to educate them about the dangers of tetanus and the importance of getting inoculated against it. A large majority of those students reported that they were convinced and planned to get their shots, but in the end only 3 percent got them. Bu another group of students, who were presented with the same lecture, had a 28 percent inoculation rate. The difference? The second group was given a map of the campus and asked to plan their route to the health center and pick a date and time to go. Sometimes, you see, motivation isn't our problem. Rather, we need to identify life's everyday mental obstacles - regret, fatigue, overconfidence, fear, to name just four - and put ourselves into position to hurdle them.
— Gary Belsky, Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes and How to Correct Them: Lessons from the Life-Changing Science of Behavioral Economics
Most worldly goals for so-called success are soul traps similar to quicksand.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I wake up every morning thinking about all the great things I am going to accomplish that day, and I go to bed every night thinking about all the even greater things I’m going to have to accomplish tomorrow to make up for the nothing I did today.
— John A. Ashley
You set goals in order to become the person it takes to achieve them
— Linda Deir
If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The harder the fight, the greater the victory.
— Chris Burkmenn