Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
Goals are discovered, not made.
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.
The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.
Sometimes when people get what they want, they realize how limited their goals were.
TV: Mad Men
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things; to compete. You can be just an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got, is a very pleasant side effect.
To kindle a fire and leave it burning - that is the aim of all great teachers.
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional days it takes you to regain lost ground.
Stop and make sure that everything you are doing right now is really what makes you happy. You can’t just live for some goal in the future and have that be everything, have that be it. Because that is what some people do. They get on this road and there are all these signs saying “This way, this way” but what if you get there, you get exactly what you wanted, but all the things that were wrong are still wrong. Then what?