Goals And Ambitions Quotes

• With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.

  Shane Warne

  Attitude, Ambition, Player

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• One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

  Jack Penn

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Inspiration, Clear Goals

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

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  We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Passion, Ambition, Goal

  "Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2013.

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• It is never too late to be who you want to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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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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• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2016

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• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "International Encyclopedia of Prose and Poetical Quotations". Book by William S. Walsh, 1951.

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• Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Eye

  Brian Tracy, Azim Jamal (2016). “What You Seek Is Seeking You”, p.139, Jaico Publishing House

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• Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Positive, Running

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• Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• 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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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Dream, Teacher

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

  Samuel Beckett

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Archery

  'Elegiac Verse' (1880)

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