GOALS

An accumulation of quotationsto stimulate and motivate

gathered by Richard Randolph

Alice: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to

go from here?

The Cat: “That depends a good deal on where you

want to get to.”

Alice: “I don't much care where.”The Cat: “Then it doesn't much matter

which way you go.”

If you don’t know

where you’re going,

any road will

get you there.

~ Lewis Carrol

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

~ John F. Kennedy

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

~ Robert Heinlein

It’s all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.

~ Elizabeth Moon

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

~ Denis Watley

Few people take objectives really seriously. They put average effort into too many things, rather than superior thought and effort into a few important things. People who achieve the most are selective as well as determined.

~ Richard Koch

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.

~ Kurt Lewin

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them, but you can’t. 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. It lies in having no goal to reach. It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace not to have any stars to reach. Not failure, but low aim, is the real sin.

~ Benjamin Mays

To make a great dream come true,

you must first have a great dream.

~ Hans Selye

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

~ Napoleon Hill

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

~ Abraham Lincoln

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

Abigail AdamsOctober, 1779

in a letter to John Quincy Adamsas he departed Massachusetts for France

with his father John Adams, for the second time.

AQUILA

Licat volaré si superturgum Aquila volat.

 

Any man can fly if he rides on the back of an eagle.