"According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis."
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"Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind."
"Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great."
"The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been."
"No man is happy without a goal, and no man can be happy without faith in his own ability to reach that goal."
"When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up."
"In fact, my entire childhood consisted of looking at photographs in which the viewer sees the ball behind the line, looking through the goal net, and the poor goalkeeper in front of the net."
"The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it."
"The most important single thing is to focus obsessively on the customer. Our goal is to be earth's most customer-centric company."
"Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become."
"Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me."
"I think universal harmony is a pipedream and it may be more productive to focus on more modest goals, like a ban on yodeling."
"Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals."
"Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them."
"Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them."
"A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him."
"Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals."
"There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training."
"Beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life."
"The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless."