Goal Quotes - Page 14

• What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 09, 2014

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• It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Happiness, Mean

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

  Lawrence Bossidy

  Reality, People, Preparation

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• What's talked about is a dream,
  What's envisioned is exciting,
  What's planned become possible,
  What's scheduled is real.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Real, Exciting

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• I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Success, Business, Becoming

  Letter to Ellen Terry, 28 Aug. 1896

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• If you can dream it, you can do it.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If you can dream it, you can make it so.

  Belva Davis

  Inspirational, Positive, Dream

  Belva Davis, Vicki Haddock (2011). “Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life in Journalism”, p.215, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

  Sidney Howard

  Inspirational, Life, Giving Up

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• Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Happiness, Success, Happy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.95, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Inanimate Objects, Defeat

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• I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Stars, Military, Light

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

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• I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

  Bette Davis

  Congratulations, Apples, Golden

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

  Princess Diana

  Happiness, Happy, Running

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• Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

  Walt Disney

  Effort, Done, Certain

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• A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

  Max Eastman

  Land, Play, Mind

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• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Life, Peace, Honesty

  "Innovate Like Edison : The Five-Step System for Breakthrough Business Success". Book by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott, p. 67,

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• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Money, Government

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• Every artist was first an amateur.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.119, Harvard University Press

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• You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

  "You might be a redneck if". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1989.

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• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

  Sigmund Freud

  Giving Up, Mean, Effort

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.16, Courier Dover Publications

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• You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have

  Zig Ziglar

  Target

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• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Accomplish Your Goals, Accomplishment

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.166, Pelican Publishing

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