Quotes
Quotes on goal-setting
“Goals are dreams with deadlines” - Diana Scharf Hunt, author
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” - Les Brown, motivational speaker
“If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else” - Lawrence J. Peter, 1919-1990, educator and founder of the ‘Peter Principle’
“Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible” - Doug Larson, 1926-, columnist
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go” - T.S. Eliot, 1888-1965, poet, playwright and literary critic
“If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up” - J.M. Power, American writer and producer
“Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing” - Adolph Monod, 1802-1856, French Protestant churchman
“It is never too late to be who you might have been” - George Elliot, 1819-1880, English novelist, journalist and translator
“Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein” - H. Jackson Brown, Jr., American author
“How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?” - Anthony Robbins, 1960-, American self-help author and success coach
“Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n” - Thomas Edison, 1847-1931, American inventor, scientist, and businessman
“We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet” - Author Unknown
“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right” - Aldous Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer
“There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.” - Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865-1946, American-born essayist and critic
"A goal properly set is halfway reached" - Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of USA (1861-1865)
"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations" - Alan Loy McGinnis, 1933-2005, author and Christian psychotherapist
"Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire" - Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American writer and lecturer
"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success" - Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch post-Impressionist painter
"You have to know what you want to get it" - Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer and thinker
"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it." - Lucinda Basset, 1954-, American self-help author and motivational speaker
"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life." - George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian, actor and writer
"The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill" - W. Clement Stone, 1902-2002, businessman, philanthropist and self-help author
"Please understand my friend, that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today" - Akin A. Awolaja, self-help author
Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland), 1832-1898, English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer