Quotes – G

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.”

—Andrew Carnegie

“Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy goal or ideal.”

—Earl Nightingale

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfilment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them”.

―Jack Canfield

“Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.”

―Robery H. Schuller

“The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.”

—Bill Copeland

“I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.”

—Michael Phelps

“It’s an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.”

―Cesar Millan

“If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you”.

―Les Brown

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals”.

―Zig Ziglar

“You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.”

―Les Brown

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”

―sylvia Plath

“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”

—Ted Turner

“You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life”.

―H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“I believe in the saying, ‘If you aim at nothing, you’re going to hit nothing.’ So, if you don’t set goals, then you have nowhere to go”.

―Taylor Lautner

“Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.”

―LL Cool J

“All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.”

―Norman Vincent Peale

“It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”

—Benjamin E. Mays

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

―Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

“Where are the people who don’t have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.”

―Shiv Khera

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

―Confucius