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"You must be as joyful when you fail again and again as you are joyful when you succeed. It is often when you fail that you move toward the goal without being aware of it. You must feel joy even when you have not fully succeeded but only moved toward achievement of your goal."
"The key of success is for you to set one big, challenging goal and then to pay any price, overcome any obstacle and persist through any difficulty until you finally achieve it"
"The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do."
"Believing in yourself is the first step to accomplishing any goal. If you think you're going to fail, you probably will."
"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."
"I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
"Success is a consequence and must not be a goal."
"The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals."
"The only goal is in the process. The process is the thing…with little flashes of light here and there. Those are the gigs, those are the live shows. But it's the life in between—that's all I got."
"The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become."
"You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough."
"You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has."
"The goal in life is to discover that you’ve always been where you were supposed to be."
"The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention."
"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."
"If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal."
"If life's journey be endless where is its goal? The answer is, it is everywhere. We are in a palace which has no end, but which we have reached. By exploring it and extending our relationship with it we are ever making it more and more our own."
"You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with."
"No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed."
"I compete only with myself, and I try to become a better human being. This is my goal."
