"Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment."
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"Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it."
"You don't ever want to go out there and not be the best. You want to be the best cop that you can. Be the best writer you can be. Everybody has their goals. Everybody has their dreams."
"Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you."
"You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops."
"Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure."
"Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society."
"Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal ."
"Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."
"You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals."
"A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it."
"When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth."
"Goals are like bananas, they come in bunches."
"The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function."
"Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire."
"If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else."
"The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?"
"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
"When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness."
"Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have."