14 Quotes Tagged: goal-setting

If you don't have a goal, the world might give you one. You will be like a leaf, blowing with every breeze and wholly affected by the world around you. You don't want to be a rock, either, unaffected by the world and inflexible in your thoughts. Rather, be a tree: keeping your roots firm but also being able to sense and adapt to the world around you.

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all.

Don't be an escort to people on their way to success, for it is equally as if you're a sign post, leading the way, and rusting at the end.

It doesn’t matter whether someone thinks I’m
short or tall, but it matters if I stand tall in my own
eyes — because I know my disciplines, I know what
I’m doing, I know whether I’m doing it or not doing it.
It doesn’t have to be published in some local paper,
as long as I know that I’m paying the price and that I
deserve the applause and I deserve the prize. That’s
what’s exciting. That’s why this goal setting is so
important. It challenges you to grow. It challenges
you to become more than you are, to move up to the
next level. And that’s key.

Ignorance
is not bliss. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance is
devastation. Ignorance creates lack. Ignorance
creates disease. Ignorance will shorten your life.
Ignorance will empty your life and leave you with
the husks, nothing to account for. No, ignorance is
not bliss.
Here’s another note to make: What you don’t know
will hurt you. What you don’t know will tragically
affect your life. What you don’t know will leave
your life empty. What you don’t know will leave
you without a relationship. We’re all affected by
knowledge, whether we know or whether we don’t
know. That’s why you’ve got to read the books.

Professionals stick to the schedule;
amateurs let life get in the way.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him.