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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Inspirational, Confidence, Determination

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• Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Put your future in good hands. Your own.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Graduation, Wise, Confidence

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark (2011). “Chicken Soup for the Soul: Preteens Talk: Inspiration and Support for Preteens from Kids Just Like Them”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Order, Goal

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• It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

  Steve Miller

  Successful, Too Late, Might

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• Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Goal, World

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• In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Success, Running

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• I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Respect, Men, Goal

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• We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won't start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude...Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals.

  Melody Beattie

  Happiness, Gratitude, Grateful

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• I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

  Novak Djokovic

  Years, Goal, Trying

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• We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Motivational, Determination, Business

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.82, Penguin

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• The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.

  Robin Sharma

  Real, Lying, Goal

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 25, 2014

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• The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Children, Skills, Discipline

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Mutual commitment helps overcome the fear of failure—especially when people are part of a team sharing and achieving goals. It also sets the stage for open dialogue and honest conversation.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Team, Commitment, Goal

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• Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

  Brian Tracy

  Skills, Goal, Important

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• Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Goal, Achieve

  Brian Tracy (1998). “Mastering Your Time”, p.4, Jaico Publishing House

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  To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Goal, Needs

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

  Cass Elliot

  Basketball, People, Goal

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• Obviously businesses do not operate like an artists' commune. Business involves deploying finite resources to achieve goals in a competitive environment to make money. That is something creative people understand.

  John Kao

  Artist, People, Goal

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• A little exposure to the philosophy of many Eastern spiritual traditions - including yoga - could easily lead you to conclude that if you aspire to achieve goals in the material world you cannot fulfill yourself spiritually, or vice versa. However, since all of us, at some level, long for fulfillment in all aspects of our life, it is essential to understand that these two aims are not mutually exclusive.

  Rod Stryker

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Yoga

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• People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

  Daniel Gilbert

  People, Goal, Trying

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Gilbert, Annie McKee, Gretchen Spreitzer, Teresa Amabile (2017). “Happiness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)”, p.25, Harvard Business Press

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