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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."
-- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), artist, poet and writer.

"The purpose of goals is to focus our attention. The mind will not reach toward achievment until it has clear objectives. The magic begins when we set goals. It is then that the switch is turned on, the current begins to flow, and the power to accomplish becomes a reality."
-- From the book,The Best of Success (book of quotes compiled by Wynn Davis)

"If you live for the highest goal, you are living a life of the spirit – whether or not you consider yourself to be on a spiritual path. If you consciously notice the larger aspects of life, always consider whether what you are doing coincides with these aspects, never forget the times when you were enlivened by the power of the highest goal, use those memories in new situations, and act with the knowledge of the support you have and the journey you are on – you will be living for the highest goal."
-- Michael Ray: The Highest Goal: The Secret that Sustains You in Every Moment

"Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit."
-- Mary Lou Retton

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."
-- Paul Goodman (1911–1972), American poet, writer, and activist

"Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead."
-- Louisa May Alcott, author

"For me, goals are my road map to the life I want. They have helped me accomplish things I once thought were impossible."
-- Catherine Pulsifer

"Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk."
-- J.C. Penney (1875-1971 American Retailer & Philanthropist

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive."
-- Robert Schuller (Minister and Author)

"Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life."
--Harvey Mackay

"If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! Conditions often disguise strategies for escaping accountability. Why not just take charge and create the experience you are looking for?"
-- Eric Allenbaugh

"In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia."
--Author Unknown

"Involve others in your goals. Nothing worth achieving is achieved without the help of others. As you set your goals, ask experts about every aspect of them, and as you work on your goals, constantly check with others for feedback on how you are doing. The more you consult with your mentors, experts, etc, the more you will move ahead with your goals. From the time you pick your goal, to the time you complete your goal, you should have a team of experts, consultants, etc, helping you, so you can move through your objectives and move on with your life."
-- Edward W. Smith, Sixty Seconds To Success

"Historically, bravery is thought of in the physical sense. Today, bravery most often applies to the courage to follow your dreams and convictions. It is tempting to sacrifice aspirations and principles on the altar of expediency. Sticking to your goal and your principles is just as scary as physical dangers."
-- Randy Pennington and Marc Bockmon: On My Honor, I Will

"Our aspirations are our possibilities."
-- Robert Browning, poet

"People who say life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to' -- to work for and to hope for."-- Maxwell Maltz

"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them."
-- Denis Waitley

"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach."
-- Benjamin Mays, Educator and Minister

"The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams."
-- Og Mandino (1923-1996)

“We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.”
-- Vince Lombardi

"When we have no personal goal which we are interested in, and which means something to us, we are apt to go round in circles."
-- psychologist Maxwell Maltz

"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight."
-- Anita DeFrantz (1952-) Olympic bronze medalist and first woman
to represent the U.S. on the International Olympic Committee

77 unique tips for setting goals and achieving them that can change your life!

"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."
-- Pamela Vaull Starr (1909-1993) American poet, artist, and writer

"Reminding one another of the dream that each of us aspires to may be enough for us to set each other free."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way."
-- Eileen Caddy (Author)

"There is no shame in having fallen. Nor any shame in being born into a lowly estate. There is only shame in not struggling to rise. And also shame for not wishing to attain the better. Or not dreaming about it and praying for it."
-- Samuel Amalu

"Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre."
-- David Sarnoff

"A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person."
-- Neal A. Maxwell

"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