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Quote: When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Author: Audre Lorde
Source: Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd
Keywords: goals priorities fear courage power vision

Quote: Whether or not we realize it each of us has a special gift inside us just waiting to surface!...We owe developing these gifts not only to ourselves, but those around us as well... The important thing here is not what your gift is as much as that you develop it so that you can share it with those around you and in the process further your own personal life!... Once we have identified our special talents it doesn't matter whether or not we find immediate success in them, what does matter is that we take a step each day towards our intended goal!
Author: Josh Hinds
Source: Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Keywords: talents goals encourage gifts growth sharing success

Quote: When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
Author: Greg Anderson
Source: The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Keywords: dreams goals love life

Quote: The most effective way I know to understand and clarify life purpose is to develop a personal mission statement.
Author: Greg Anderson
Source: The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness
Keywords: life purpose priorities goals mission values

Quote: ...for better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Keywords: future dreams goals challenges

Quote: Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question: It provides one of the most exciting models for living.
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Source: Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Keywords: problems creativity life living goals positive

Quote: 'Now' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
Author: Barbara Sher
Source: I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
Keywords: time dreams goals action circumstances life living fulfillment procrastination

Quote: Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale
Keywords: enthusiasm idea goals thought opportunity success

Quote: When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Source: Positive Thinking Every Day by Norman Vincent Peale
Keywords: problem planning goals vision strategy

Quote: All men seek one goal: success or happiness. The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society. First, have a definite, clear, practical ideal--a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends--wisdom, money, material and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
Author: Aristotle
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: goals objectives success happiness action planning priorities

Quote: Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine...[your] values and goals...Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Keywords: life living opportunity values goals vision mission obstacles challenges

Quote: First, almost all of us can do heroic things with our lives if we believe in ourselves and our goals. Second, most directions we need to actualize our goals are housed within ourselves.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Keywords: confidence goals self-esteem ability actualization resources success

Quote: Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power--a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Keywords: desire vision mission goals purpose success perseverance

Quote: Sometimes we feel so worn down by our spirit-breaking, daily grind (or a serious loss, like being fired) that we lack the energy and hope needed to reach our goals. The creative process makes demands on us. In and of itself, it can trigger anxiety, conflict, chronic fatigue, and even intense resistance (what I've called the Big R)--the recoil, or withdrawal of energy from obligations. When apathy or restlessness undercut our plans, the Big R is usually lurking close by.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Keywords: apathy fatigue energy goals hope vision creativity resistance restlessness purpose

Quote: Identifying your enthusiasms requires courage and heroic creative vision. You have to believe that what you want is possible for you.
Author: Marsha Sinetar
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Keywords: vision purpose goals mission enthusiasm talents gifts courage creativity self-confidence

Quote: Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Author: Sallus
Source: Body, Mind and Spirit
Keywords: goals vision mission life actions

Quote: The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
Author: Austin O'Malley
Source: Body, Mind and Spirit
Keywords: selfishness desire dreams goals vision priorities

Quote: Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Body, Mind and Spirit
Keywords: achievement success goals vision mission enthusiasm life

Quote: One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: self-confidence action creativity work gifts talents abilities achievement success goals vision mission

Quote: A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Author: Harvey Mackay
Source: Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Keywords: dreams vision mission goals planning success

Quote: Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Author: Harvey Mackay
Source: Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Keywords: risk safety vision goals dreams courage

Quote: Stop telling yourself that dreams don't matter, that they are only dreams and that you should be more sensible.
Author: Julie Cameron
Source: The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron
Keywords: dreams vision goals mission

Quote: We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Author: Susan Jeffers
Source: The Artist's Way by Julie Cameron
Keywords: dreams goals optimism pessimism expectations beliefs limits

Quote: We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: vision goals dreams progress

Quote: Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires...courage.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: goals dreams vision mission critics criticism difficulties challenges problems action courage strength planning

Quote: Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Author: Horace
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations
Keywords: abilities success planning priorities vision mission goals dreams

Quote: Hitch your wagon to a star.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Keywords: dreams goals vision mission success

Quote: 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?
Author: Eric Allenbaugh
Source: Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh
Keywords: goals conditions limits circumstances responsibility creativity vision

Quote: In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
Keywords: goals vision courage risk success planning

Quote: You are the product of your own brainstorm.
Author: Rosemary Konner Steinbaum
Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.
Keywords: ideas character creativity personality vision mission goals dreams direction

Quote: You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be consecrated at the altar of daily life.
Author: MacRina Wiederkehr
Source: A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary by MacRina Wiederkehr
Keywords: joy sorrow pain suffering love beauty dreams routine living meaning wisdom daily events happiness problems struggles difficulties mistakes sadness goals hopes spirituality

Quote: There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people.
Author: Jan Ashford
Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.
Keywords: integrity character choice responsibility blame action words can't won't vision desire change goals effort attitude do success accomplishment self-confidence self-esteem growth excuses rationalization potential decisions

Quote: Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Source: Have a Great Day by Norman Vincent Peale
Keywords: confidence self-confidence self-esteem problems difficulties obstacles challenges work effort expectations goals vision belief

Quote: There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: achievement accomplishment success ability potential realism reality desires goals crying mature maturity growth

Quote: But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
Author: Sir Isaiah Berlin
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Keywords: goals purpose meaning fulfillment positivism positivity

Quote: The longer I live, the more deeply convinced that what makes the difference between one man and another, the great and the insignificant, is energy, that invincible determination, a purpose that once formed nothing can take away. The energetic quality will do anything that is meant by God to be done in this world, and no talent, training, opportunity, or circumstance will make any man without it.
Author: Sir Thomas Buxton
Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren
Keywords: energy enthusiasm success achievement goals work effort action

Quote: ...who waits until circumstances completely favor his undertaking, will never accomplish anything.
Author: Martin Luther
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: planning goals vision determination self-confidence procrastination

Quote: The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile, has begun to die.
Author: E.T. Trigg
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: life goals purpose meaning fulfillment

Quote: Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Author: Andrew Carnegie
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: success vision mission achievement goals meditation visualization goals

Quote: What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love...Give it the best there is in you... Seize your opportunities...And be a member of the team.
Author: Benjamin F. Fairless
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: success achievement goals vocation joy work effort opportunity team cooperation

Quote: It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Author: Robert H. Goddard
Source: Franklin Seasons Planner, September 2, 1993
Keywords: goals vision limitations expectations success hope belief faith

Quote: Chance favors the prepared mind.
Author: Louis Pasteur
Source: Franklin Seasons Planner, September 30, 1993
Keywords: lucky preparation planning goals strategies strategy success

Quote: Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Author: Thomas J. Watson
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: inner strength of character overcome overcoming reserves work effort achievement success challenges obstacles problems difficulty difficulties leaders leadership lead by example goals planning vision mission

Quote: Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Author: Harriet Braiker
Source: Treasury of Women's Quotations compiled and edited by Carolyn Warner.
Keywords: perfectionism motivation motivating excellence goals judgementalism

Quote: The best books are yet to be written; the best paintings have not yet been painted; the best governments are yet to be formed; the best is yet to be done by you!
Author: John Erskine
Source: Words for All Occasions by Glenn van Ekeren
Keywords: success possibilities vision mission goals dreams

Quote: The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: action thought goals success

Quote: Our thoughts create our reality--not instantly, necessarily, as in "Poof! There it is"--but eventually. Where we put our focus--our inner and outer vision--is the direction we tend to go. That's our desire, our intention.
Author: Peter McWilliams
Source: You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought by Peter McWilliams
Keywords: vision ideas goals success desire change self-improvement

Quote: The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Author: Alfred Adler
Source: Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career! by Eric Allenbaugh
Keywords: risk courage strength bravery success failure mistake vision strength goals life living achievement

Quote: The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why? Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
Author: Andre Maurois
Source: Light from Many Lamps by Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor)
Keywords: success materialism focus possessions goals unhappiness depression

Quote: You would be surprised how many people quit when faced with obstacles. As every good salesman knows, everything may not be possible today, but sooner or later, it is possible.
Author: Earl Graves
Source: To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring by Marsha Sinetar
Keywords: failure mistake giving up give up pessimism optimism vision goals success self-confidence possibility possibilities

Quote: If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity.
Author: Loretta Staples
Source: Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd
Keywords: goals goal setting vision mission planning success achievement outcome action work effort

Quote: When you are feeling fear of some project or idea or dream, ask yourself, What am I still curious enough about to override my fear? Follow your curiosity like a delicious scent leading you to a kitchen. Let your curiosity peel back the dry, bitter skin of drudgery to find the sweet fruit of fun at the core. Focus on what you love rather than fixating on the feelings of discomfort that sometimes accompany desire.
Author: Carol Lloyd
Source: Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd
Keywords: curiosity inpsiration inspired motivated procrastination fear dreams ideas vision mission goals success achievement curious

Quote: For most of us, working toward our own vision, following our own intuition, and respecting our own authority all feel incredibly bizarre...But don't let the alien sensation of taking your dreams and ambitions seriously deter you from what you really want to do: create a life you love.
Author: Carol Lloyd
Source: Creating a Life Worth Living by Carol Lloyd
Keywords: goals success achievement self-confidence self-esteem vision goals joy

Quote: Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Source: Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Keywords: action achievement success responsible effort work goals vision mission purpose maturity character

Quote: Our dreams, goals, and ideas come from our values...If what we are doing does not come from what we care about most in life, it is meaningless.
Author: G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff
Source: To Do Doing Done!: A Creative Approach to Managing Projects and Effectively Finishing What Matters Most by G. Lynne Snead, Joyce Wycoff
Keywords: dreams goals ideas creativity creative expression meaning purpose fulfillment values ideas work career job

Quote: Who begins much, finishes little.
Author: German proverb
Source: The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Keywords: focus goals planning mission vision success judgement

Quote: He begins to die that quits his desires.
Author: George Herbert
Source: Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days by Alexandra Stoddard
Keywords: dreams vision mission goals meaning purpose fulfillment

Quote: ...leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully...they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning--from one's own life and experience.
Author: Warren Bennis
Source: On Becoming a Leader by Warren G. Bennis
Keywords: success achievement excellence leadership self-expression self-actualization self-awareness communication goals planning learning growth self-improvement authenticity self-awareness leading by example vision mission

Quote: The delay of our dreams does not mean that they have been denied.
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Keywords: dreams goals vision patience

Quote: Priorities are not written in granite. They need to be flexible and change as we do...It takes peace of mind and clarity to recognize and reorder meaningful, personal priorities. Maybe that is why so many of us procrastinate.
Author: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy by Sarah Ban Breathnach
Keywords: priorities goals planning balance procrastination time management

Quote: If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice
Keywords: happiness joy meaning purpose fulfillment goals mission vision achievement success

Quote: Just as an appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration.
Author: Igor Stravinsky
Source: The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron
Keywords: work effort success excellence achievement goals mission

Quote: I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Author: Jonathan Winters
Source: Dale Dauten's column, "Puncturing questionable advice, logic," printed in the December 24, 1998 Arizona Republic
Keywords: success achievement goals self-starter mission procrastination

Quote: Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Author: Albert Einstein
Source: The Quotable Einstein collected and edited by Alice Calaprice
Keywords: creativity create yearning desire dreams goals vision ideas innovation invent

Quote: From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Author: Abraham Maslow
Source: Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations compiled by William D. Hitt
Keywords: personal growth self-improvement potential vision dreams goals mission future

Quote: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: Thoughts on Leadership: A Treasury of Quotations compiled by William D. Hitt
Keywords: life living attention focus balance plans goals relationships

Quote: The significance of man is not what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Keywords: achievement success goals dreams vision

Quote: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: Bits and Pieces magazine, Vol. R No. 40
Keywords: planning success achievement goals goal-setting daily tasks productivity efficiency time management procrastination

Quote: Why should you be content with so little? Why shouldn't you reach out for something big?
Author: Charles L. Allen
Source: Soar... If You Dare: And Use Your Secret Powers for Success: To Make Your Dreams Come True! by James R. Ball
Keywords: dreams goals success courage

Quote: The quality of life does not depend on happiness alone, but also on what one does to be happy. If one fails to develop goals that give meaning to one's existence, if one does not use the mind to its fullest, then good feelings fulfill just a fraction of the potential we possess. A person who achieves contentment by withdrawing from the world to 'cultivate his own garden,' like Voltaire's Candide cannot be said to lead an excellent life. Without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Source: Finding Flow: The Psychololgy of Engagement With Everyday Life by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Keywords: happiness fulfillment work goals mission self-improvement dreams risks courage

Quote: While we are all subject to large social forces that shape our lives and the lives of our children, we also have the capacity as individuals to make conscious and intentional choices about how we're going to relate to our circumstances and to the era in which we find ourselves. We all have the potential to chart our own paths, to bring more attention and intentionality to our lives, and to attempt to see and honor the deep soul needs of our children as well as our own as best we can. Charting such a path for ourselves is made easier by having a larger framework within which to examine and come to understand what we are doing and what needs to be done -- a framework that can help to keep us on course, even though things may be constantly changing and our next steps often unclear. Mindfulness can provide such a framework.
Author: Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Source: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jon Kabat-Zinn
Keywords: meditation self-awareness choices responsibility focus soul goals vision mission

Quote: Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Author: Leo C. Rosten
Source: The Book of Positive Quotations by John Cook
Keywords: happiness challenge fulfillment dreams goals vision work self-improvement

Quote: It is not enough to aim, you must hit.
Author: Italian proverb
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: goals mission statement vision success

Quote: Good order is the foundation of all things.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Power Quotes compiled by by Daniel B. Baker
Keywords: organization planning goals neatness habits

Quote: He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.
Author: Socrates
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: work effort purpose goals priorities

Quote: The potential for changing the future can lie only in the present.
Author: Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D.
Source: Managing Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide by Gillian Butler, Ph.D. and Tony Hope, M.D.
Keywords: change future present self-improvement goals vision

Quote: From small beginnings come great things.
Author: Dutch proverb
Source: The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Keywords: plan success achievement dreams goals vision

Quote: He begins to die that quits his desires.
Author: English proverb
Source: The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Keywords: dreams vision goals meaning purpose fulfillment

Quote: The better part of maturity is knowing your goals.
Author: Arnold Glasow
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: vision goals purpose meaning fulfillment maturity

Quote: Setting goals for significant accomplishments you want to achieve in your life, both personal and professional accomplishments, costs you nothing. Failure to set them can cost you plenty. You are smack in the middle of the only life your going to have. You can choose to succeed, or choose to drift; having goals makes the difference.
Author: Alec Mackenzie
Source: The Time Trap by Alec Mackenzie
Keywords: goals success preparation planning

Quote: Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Author: Robert Browning
Source: The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life by John Chaffee, Ph.D.
Keywords: goals purpose dreams fulfillment life work

Quote: Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread.
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Source: The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life by John Chaffee, Ph.D.
Keywords: self-awareness purpose meaning fulfilment goals dreams

Quote: We had to learn ourselves, and furthermore we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life but instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life, daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and medication, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for the individual.
Author: Victor Frankl
Source: The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life by John Chaffee, Ph.D.
Keywords: purpose goals meaning fulfillment self-awareness circumstances difficulties adversity challenges expectations actions deeds integrity

Quote: The how-to-succeed literature would have us forever looking for mountains to conquer. But the world's doers aren't interested in conquering a mountain -- they want to be conquered by it, to fall in love with the adventure and the discovery.

One path is greed, the second is curiosity. With one, the journey is to a reward; with the other, the journey is the reward.
Author: Dale Dauten
Source: "Striving to be best is a sure way to the top" by Dale Dauten, Arizona Republic, 7/17/2000
Keywords: goals success passion fulfillment meaning purpose motive

Quote: A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations edited by Angela Partington
Keywords: success goals vision mistakes failure determination perseverance

Quote: In this country, every man is the architect of his own ambitions.
Author: Horton Bain
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: personal responsibility ambition goals success achievement vision

Quote: If you have a great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it, but if the step is only a tiny one, don't worry if it is the largest one now possible.
Author: Mildred McAfee
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: goals mission vision planning chunking

Quote: They build too low who build beneath the skies.
Author: Edward Young
Source: The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Keywords: dreams vision goals success achievement ambition

Quote: Pressure usually comes when we have no plan.
Author: Jim Smoke
Source: Every Single Day by Jim Smoke
Keywords: planning goals stress pressure

Quote: Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning -- much less set strategy for a company or a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand this human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson.
Author: Peter Koestenbaum
Source: "Do you have the will to lead?" by Polly LaBarre, Fast Company, March 2000
Keywords: self-awareness meaning fulfillment purpose direction goals success

Quote: 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.
Author: Harvey Mackay
Source: "Winners set goals, while losers get distracted" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Republic, January 3, 2001
Keywords: goals planning vision dreams purpose fulfillment

Quote: A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Author: Robert Browning
Source: The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations edited by Angela Partington
Keywords: success goals vision mistakes failure determination perseverance