The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might
Find out where you are at, where you are going and build a plan to get there.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.
Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.
Have a definite, clear, practical ideal - a goal, an objective.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Never leave the site of a goal without first taking some form of positive action towards its attainment. Right now, take a moment to define the first steps you must take to achieve some goal. What can you do today to move forward?
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity.
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