Not having a goal is more to be
feared than not reaching a goal.

Robert Schuller

    

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. . . . You can only see one thing
clearly and that is your goal.  Form a mental vision of that
and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

  
It must be borne in mind that
the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in
not reaching your goal.  The
tragedy lies in having no goal
to reach.  It isn’t a calamity
to die with dreams unfulfilled,
but it is a calamity not to dream.
It is not a disgrace not to reach
the stars, but it is a disgrace
to have no stars to reach for.
Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Benjamin Mays

   

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive
directions; they can be changed as your priorities
change, new ones added, and others dropped.

O. Carl Simonton

   
   

Not every end is a goal.  The end of a melody is not
its goal; but nevertheless, if the melody had not reached
its end it would not have reached its goal either.

Friedrich W. Nietzsche

The happiest days are found in struggling
toward a goal, not in any attainment.

unattributed

  

If one sets up fantasy goals, then it follows that one will experience
fantasy victories and fantasy defeats, the inevitable pendulum
swing within the world of desire.  The goal of God is the reality of
yourself; you are within God, and God is within you.

A Spiritual Warrior

  

The reason most people never reach their goals is
that they don't define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable.

Denis Waitley

   

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If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them
would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Lillian Carter

 
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.

Bonnie Blair

Know what you want to do--then do it.  Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise--it makes you stretch.

Mary Kay Ash

 
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that
sort of thing is simply to have a good time.  But people get
so solemn over the process that they forget the end.

Don Marquis

 

Goals give direction to our lives.  We need to know who we are
and where we want to go.  But the trip itself, the steps we
travel, offer us daily satisfaction moment by moment--
fulfillment, if we'd but realize it.  Too often we keep our
sights on the goal's completion, rather than the process--the
day-to-day living that makes the completion possible.

unattributed

  
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

  
 

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.  Whatever
your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

 

The important thing
is to strive towards
a goal which is not
immediately visible.
That goal is not
the concern of
the mind, but of
the spirit.

Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry

   

  

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