By getting caught up in the day-to-day details, we sometimes lose sight of where we want to be going.
G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff To Do Doing Done!
Categories: vision goal

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have -- and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
Paraphrased from Flight of the Buffalo by James A. Belasco and Ralph C. Stayer "Monkey Business", Fast Company, March 2000
Categories: change vision

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: priorities vision

When we mean to build,
We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
And when we see the figure of the house,
Then must we rate the cost of the execution.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: planning vision

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.
Claude M. Bristol The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: vision self-image

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw Power Quotes
Categories: vision dreams

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: life vision

Ambition is the spur that makes men struggle with destiny. It is heaven's own incentive to make purpose great and achievement greater.
Donald G. Mitchell The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: ambition vision dreams

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: opportunity action vision

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: awareness life vision

In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: goal vision planning

Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: vision success goals

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: vision goal plan

Fences are made for those who cannot fly.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-confidence dreams vision

One of the saddest lines in the world is 'oh come now -- be realistic.' The best parts of the world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.
Richard N. Bolles Soar...If You Dare
Categories: dreams vision potential

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or in impulse in the heart of a woman.
Kahlil Gibran The Broken Wings
Categories: thought goal vision

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight in one blow, to live eternity in an hour.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus success vision

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: vision mission planning

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.
Iyanla VanZant One Day My Soul Just Opened Up : 40 Days and 40 Nights Towards Spiritual Strength and Personal Growth
Categories: flexibility vision purpose

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
William Blake The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: perception vision wisdom

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of the evil to one who is striking at the root.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: causes evil effort vision

A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: ambitions vision purpose

What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Winston Churchill A Mind Like His: Developing the Character of Christ
Categories: service volunteerism vision

If you haven't attained clear true vision, this causes you to lapse into extremes, so that you lose contact with reality.
Zen Master Yuanwu Zen Essence: The Science of Freedom
Categories: vision reality balance

I dwell in possibility.
Emily Dickinson Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: potential possibility vision

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen : A Nine-Step Plan for Success
Categories: vision hope attitude

Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire.
George Matthew Adams Words for All Occasions
Categories: enthusiasm vision faith

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: greatness opportunity vision

We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: understanding vision meaning

There are hints of glory in our lives that yearn for fulfillment.
Macrina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels: Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary
Categories: possibility potential vision

Never looked down to test the ground before taking your next step: only he who keeps his eyes fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.
Dag Hammarskjold Markings
Categories: risk vision caution

Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subsconciousness--I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland The Artist's Way
Categories: inspiration creativity vision talent

And while I have learned that dreams need doing as much as they need being, I have learned that the being always comes first.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: dreams vision priorities authenticity

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur Power Quotes
Categories: opportunity possibility vision success

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: reality perception vision attitude

Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Words for All Occasions
Categories: progress enthusiasm vision possibility

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Warren G. Bennis On Becoming a Leader
Categories: self-awareness vision growth self-improvement

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: choice vision focus potential

A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled, the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: strength vision mission creativity

When fortune comes, seize her firmly by the forelock, for, I tell you, she is bald at the back.
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo: Discovering the Life of Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography
Categories: vision foresight preparation success

Where there is no vision, people perish.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: vision mission future society

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

Better lose the anchor than the whole ship.
Dutch proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: sacrifice choice wisdom vision

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus vision happiness present joy

Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Willa Cather Simple Abundance
Categories: love miracles change vision

Personal leadership is not a singular experience.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: vision values action leadership

The afterthought is good, but forethought is better.
Norwegian proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: proverb planning vision goal

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is too muddled? You are
Dag Hammarskjold The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: vision dreams future hope

The delay of our dreams does not mean that they have been denied.
Sarah Ban Breathnach Simple Abundance
Categories: dreams goals vision patience

Getting to our destination does not
G. Lynne Snead and Joyce Wycoff To Do Doing Done!
Categories: goal vision mistakes success

Get up the courage to play on a much larger field and to pursue your inspiration where ever it may lie.
Jordan Ayan Aha! Ten ways to free your creative spirit and find your great ideas
Categories: vision courage dreams success

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women
Categories: sacrifice priorities focus vision

One of the easiest ways to change is simply to alter your position -- to focus on the one-inch square in front of you and put one foot in front of the other. But to go forward -- on a cliff, on a project, or in your career -- you sometimes first have to take a step sideways, or even a step back.
Mike Donahue "Idea Summit" by Anna Muoio,Fast Company, January/February 2000
Categories: change progress vision planning

Creative people exhibit a continuous
Glenn van Ekeren Words for All Occasions
Categories: creativity drive vision variety

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: growth change vision patience

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: thought vision philosophy future think

Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.
Christine Collange Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: wisdom talent vision action

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
Maurice Maeterlinck The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness vision perception fulfillment

...there is beauty, meaning, truth, love, and mystery in the world at all times and under all circumstances, although these things are sometimes hard to perceive, or even to imagine...Beauty, meaning, truth, love, and mystery do no just add their separate share of goodness to life. The whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. Beauty, plus meaning, plus truth, plus love, plus mystery equals something awesom, nameless, and inconceivable.
Timothy Ray Miller How to Want What You Have
Categories: perception vision life spirituality

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations
Categories: vision goals priorities action

You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed.
Russell H. Conwell Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: vision service success excellence

Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes
Georgia O'Keeffe The Artist's Way
Categories: vision nature beauty discovery friendship

Aim at heaven and you will get earth
C.S. Lewis Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: goal success achievement courage vision

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

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: vision mission action planning responsibility

When you attend to something with true meditative attention, you awaken it in a special way.
Carolyn Forche "Live Welcoming to All" by Sue Monk Kidd, which appeared in the September/October 1997 issue of Weavings.
Categories: vision focus attitude inner beauty inner peace

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Power Quotes
Categories: vision courage faith hope success

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: time priorities laziness life vision

Caution! The left-brained world wants you to "get your head out of the clouds, get your feet on the ground, and be just like us." To advance and prosper, steadfastly ignore that advice.
Marilyn Grey Soar...If You Dare
Categories: dreams vision potential success achievement

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: vision meaning goal planning foresight

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.
James R. Ball Soar...If You Dare
Categories: vision mission success self-confidence self-worth

...when you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen:
Categories: self-knowledge vision self-awareness self-improvement dreams

Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Martin Buber Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: purpose meaning fulfillment mission vision

No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Robert Half The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: problem understanding solution answer vision

Be always sure you are right--then go ahead.
David Crockett Power Quotes
Categories: preparation deliberation planning goal vision

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

The golden rule of life is, make a
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action start goal vision planning

Most of us simply lack the imagination to envision the full scope of potential change in our lives. We are too invested in the present to consider the possibility of a threatening -- or even a promising -- future.
(uncredited) "Where are you on the Web?" Fast company, October 1999
Categories: vision imagination change growth future

It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: hope faith vision goal dream

Alertness and courage are life's shield.
Phillipine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: alert awareness courage bravery vision

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.
William Hazlitt Categories: excellence goals vision conceit ego vanity

Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them.
Russell H. Conwell Simple Abundance
Categories: hopes dreams work effort vision

Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
English proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: boldness vision leadership success achievement

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: success goals vision mistakes failure

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: perseverance determination goals vision achievement

What goal would you pursue if you knew it was impossible to fail?
Robert Schuller Soar...If You Dare
Categories: belief faith potential goals vision

If you lose hope, you're just not looking far enough ahead.
Joe Tye Never Fear, Never Quit : A Story of Courage and Perseverance
Categories: hope circumstances vision faith future

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: great responsibility vision mission fame

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince
Categories: vision emotion wisdom heart soul

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

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: change principles values self-knowledge vision

Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson Power Quotes
Categories: hope faith believe dream vision future

Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness!
George Jacques Danton Power Quotes
Categories: courage bravery action vision leadership

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow Words for All Occasions
Categories: creativity imagination vision work effort

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. I also think they happen every day, from the baby's perfect shoulder in the sonogram, to saints performing wonders.
Peggy Noonan What I saw at the Revolution: A political Life in the Reagan Era
Categories: faith hope gratitude vision spirituality

Quality is not an act. It is a habit.
Aristotle The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: quality actions habit vision mission

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.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: problem planning goals vision strategy

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: perseverance persistence direction vision attitude

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.
Mabel Newcomber The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: purpose planning goal mission vision

Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Power Quotes
Categories: vision mission goal determination action

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: choice responsibility vision planning action

When we hold back on life, life holds back on us.
Mary Manin Boggs Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: courage strength bravery risk vision

Have a vision not clouded by fear.
Cherokee proverb A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: vision fear self-confidence future goals

When you do a thing, know that success is within your grasp! All too often we are our own worst enemies. The bottom line is you were made for success!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Categories: success self-confidence faith vision mission

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: abilities vision mission opportunity action

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Kafka Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: aging beauty vision youth life

The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Harriet Rubin "Can we develop an ability to have visions?" by Harriet Rubin,Fast Company, August 2000
Categories: leadership leading vision business inspiration

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

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.
Mildred McAfee The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
Categories: goals mission vision planning chunking

A man is what he thinks about all day long.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: thought attitude belief reality vision

Every day is my best day; this is my life; I'm not going to have this moment again.
Bernie Siegel, MD Handbook for the Soul
Categories: life attitude choice joy priorities vision

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: mistakes failures risks courage vision

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Categories: dreams growth self-improvement vision self-nurture

Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich The Artist's Way
Categories: destiny self-determination growth vision mission

The path to glory is rough and many gloomy hours obscure it.
Black Hawk A Cherokee Feast of Days: Daily Meditations
Categories: success sacrifice vision persevere determination

Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Mary Martin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: action work effort goal vision planning

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most wanted to do.
W.H. Auden The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: genius excellence success vision creativity invention

The future belongs to those who believe in their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: future vision goal success achievement dreams

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: spirituality ideas creativity soul thought vision

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.
Phillip Sidney The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: vision goal achievement success ambition planning

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: vision goal perseverence determination persistence success

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.
Anais Nin Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: art perception understanding learning growth knowledege vision

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!
John Erskine Words for All Occasions
Categories: success possibilities vision mission goals dreams

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: past present future history vision wisdom

Our hope in God pulls us into the future. Hope allows us to affirm the reality of the abundant life that is ours in Christ. Hope allows us to stand with those in pain and to hold them until they are able to feel the love of God for themselves again. Hope allows us to work to bring God's reign upon the earth even when we see no results. Our hope begins and ends in God, the source of all hope.
Mary Lou Redding 100 Meditations on Hope
Categories: hope god future vision christ pain ministry

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only where it is already disappearing.
R.D. Laing Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: present history future vision society change

Follow your desire as long as you live; do not lessen the time of following desire, for the wasting of time is an abomination to the spirit.
Ptahhotep You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: desire vision goal success work effort

Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what he thinks should be there, not quite pulling it off, covering it over with white paint, and trying again, each time finding out what his painting isn't, until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is, you're off and running.
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird
Categories: vision direction learning growth self-awareness purpose

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

A way of life cannot be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Bertrand Russell Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: passion vision mission dedication success achievement

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Charles Kettering The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: goal vision mission success achievement attainment

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy Words for All Occasions
Categories: courage risk daring success achievement vision

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: hope faith vision wisdom character attitude

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Stephen Covey Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living the Seven Habits
Categories: change potential vision imagination possibilities choice

I like thinking of possibilities. At any time, an entirely new possibility is liable to come along and spin you off in an entirely new direction. The trick, I've learned, is to be awake to the moment.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: possibilities potential opportunity vision creativity present

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

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

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: success attitude decision vision mission goals

Failures don't plan to fail; they fail to plan.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: failure success vision mission planning priorities

Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life change growth vision dream goal

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

The first thing each morning, and the last thing each night, suggest to yourself specific ideas that you wish to embody in your character and personality. Address such suggestions to yourself, silently or aloud, until they are deeply impressed upon your mind.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: character visualization personality attitude vision goal

All things pass...Patience attains all it strives for.
St. Theresa of Avila Body, Mind and Spirit
Categories: patience growth circumstances plateaus vision goals

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

Many people dream of success. To me, success can only be achieved through repeated failure and introspection.
Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motors Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: success vision failure introspection self-knowledge awareness

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: vision determination perseverance success achievement planning

'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: goals dreams vision hope meaning fulfillment

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year
Categories: courage risk vision daring success achievement

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

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.
Audre Lorde Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: goals priorities fear courage power vision

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

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

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

Every noble work is, at first, impossible.
Thomas Carlyle Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: purpose meaning fulfillment success vision creativity

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don't know.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: patterns habits learning growth change vision rut

The time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely were too long.
William Shakespeare (King Henry IV) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: life priorities balance focus vision mission

We live in a world of theophanies. Holiness comes wrapped in the ordinary. There are burning bushes all around you. Every tree is full of angels. Hidden beauty is waiting in every crumb. Life wants to lead you from crumbs to angels, but this can happen only if you are willing to unwrap the ordinary by staying with it long enough to harvest its treasure.
Macrina Wiederkehr A Tree Full of Angels
Categories: holiness angels revelation ordinary beauty vision

As I sat there, I thought about how often we put right keys into wrong locks, and wrong keys into right locks, and right keys into right locks without knowing about the sligh twist to the left before the turn to the right. I was reminded of times when I've followed the advice of an "expert" who supposedly knows the way, only to find that the directions are garbled, or that they work for the expert but not for me, and I have to find my own path through the woods.
Eloise Ristad A Soprano on Her Head
Categories: direction vision advice expert growth learning

Our lives can be powerfully shaped by what we long to
Greg Anderson The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness: Feel, Think, and Live Better Than You Ever Thought Possible
Categories: vision ideal personal growth self-improvement potential

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: goals vision courage risk success planning

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort perspective vision goal dream

Never back away from a challenge if it's something you want really want to do. Duck it, and it will haunt you the rest of your life.
Harvey Mackay's dad "Dad was right: Hard work makes the difference" by Harvey Mackay, Arizona Repbulic, 6/28/2000
Categories: challenge goal vision strength courage risk

Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: vision mission work meaning happiness fulfillment

When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced course of action your should take--choose the bolder.
W.J. Slim The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action boldness courage vision mission success achievement

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: success focus vision plan goal persistance determination

Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Hubert Bonner Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: vision mission goal purpose integrity character individualism

...leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence...not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: leadership quest vision growth change success achievement

Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
Frederick Wilcox Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: risk courage strength bravery goal vision success

It is a favorite belief of mine that no student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort success achievement vision goal self-determination

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed.
Clarence Day The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: acceptance decisions adversity challenges change growth vision

Chance usually favors the prudent man.
Joseph Joubert The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: chance luck preparation planning goal vision mission

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

The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of many hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
William Shakespeare Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: dream vision goal imagination creativity self-expression artistic

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.
Napoleon Hill Soar...If You Dare
Categories: potential belief faith achievement success vision goal

Nobody makes you go after dream. It's not like doing your school work or paying your rent. No one is waiting for you to realize all your talents. You're on your own. Fulfilling your own potential, realizing your gifts, these are the only important things in our culture that are left entirely to you.
Barbara Sher Live the Life You Love : In Ten Easy Step-By Step Lessons
Categories: dream vision drive talents gifts potential responsibility

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

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.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
Categories: vision ideas goals success desire change self-improvement

He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Thomas Carlyle The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action work effort thought vision success leadership

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it -- as long as you really believe 100 percent.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Soar...If You Dare
Categories: potential belief faith vision goal success achievement

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: pessimism optimism attitude discovery vision imagination spirituality

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

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
John F. Kennedy Alexandra Stoddard's Book of Days
Categories: truth honesty integrity perception expectation myth vision

As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: focus concentration vision priorities balance success energy

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life opportunity vision good action happiness success

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of everything.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus concentration vision priorities mission balance success

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau Walden
Categories: dreams vision goal values character success achievement

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Sir Francis Bacon The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: opportunity success business vision mission goal dream

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Words for All Occasions
Categories: character vision goal potential growth judgement perception

The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability skill success determination vision goal planning

There are two kinds of failures: The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Perle Thompson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: failure initiative direction motivation goal vision leadership

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step in the music he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: success hurry desperation individualism creativity unique vision

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.
Helen Keller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: work ability skill talent desire goal vision

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: happiness selfishness purpose goal vision mission meaning

If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny, others will apply their agenda to you.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: destiny future vision self-determination growth progress self-esteem

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: vigor enthusiasm strength power influence vision mission

The greats often became great because they continued to believe in themselves despite apparent failures.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: excellence success failure growth vision potential self-confidence

The process of succeeding can be seen as a series of trials in which your vision constantly guides you toward your target while in your actual performance you are regularly slightly off target. Success in any area requires constantly readjusting your behavior as the result of feedback from your experience.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: success vision progress performance feedback change growth

Expressing your enthusiasms can add years of creative life to your time on earth.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: life aging fulfillment enthusiasm vision talents action

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.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: desire vision mission goals purpose success perseverance

Don't agonize. Organize.
Florynce Kennedy Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: planning vision mission organization business project management

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: happiness desire sacrifice delayed gratification vision goal

If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Stephen Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Categories: proactive circumstances creativity mission vision learning growth

Life's strict rule is this: You get more of what you focus on. Ignoring this, we abandon our healthiest, concentrative energies and court emotional upheaval.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: life focus vision stress wellness happiness energy

Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Harvey Mackay Harvey Mackay's United Features syndicated column
Categories: work effort determination success failure vision action

Happiness and misery depend not on how high up or low down you are--they depend not upond these, but on the direction in which you are tending.
Samuel Butler The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: happiness joy misery sadness attitude growth progress vision

Hesitation, depression or envy of those who appear to have what we want are often signs of weakness or lack of vigorous, clear purpose. These feelings may be saying we're not yet ready to create our good. When we're emotionally unprepared, we want something for nothing, and quickly.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: depression envy weakness purpose vision mission fear

The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
John Dewey Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: ideals morals vision mission experience personal growth self-improvement

The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
Categories: thinking mind boldness attitude resources goal vision mission

In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide; without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly; only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Karl Jaspers Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: possibilities potential personal growth dreams vision mission self-improvement

People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives.
Stedman Graham You Can Make It Happen
Categories: vision circumstances responsibility victim helpless powerless planning mission

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

All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men; they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: dreams plans vision mission leadership action effort work

There is a tide in the affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...
We must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare, from Julius Caesar Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: courage risk daring bravery success vision achievement goals

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: pride ability talent skill vision imagination self-confidence self-esteem

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to
W.H. Murray Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: commitment plan vision mission goal achievement resources success

As we become full persons, our knack for "right actions" and good judgement blossoms.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: fulfillment balance life actions judgement character growth vision

A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.
Donald Kircher The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: ability desire determination vision goal mission success achievement

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

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: expectations attitude success dream goal vision mission character

If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
Rabbi Harold Kushner in the essay "God's Fingerprints on the Soul" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: perspective vision good truth gratitude attitude soul self-nurture

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.
Elbert Hubbard The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: goal vision mission progress growth action priorities thought

If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: perspective growth knowledge wisdom education learning vision mission

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: wisdom trust hope faith ideas circumstances vision mission

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: fate destiny effort success work vision personal responsibility

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action desire goal vision mission planning responsibility success

No man ever yet became great by imitation.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: conformity imitation individuality originality creativity fads greatness vision

The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: future work effort present goal vision mission action

...if we are willing to abandon our usual coercive tactics and approach our problems sideways and kitty-corner we stand a good chance of finding our way through some interesting gates.
Eloise Ristad A Soprano on Her Head
Categories: solutions flexibility learning growth education solving vision experimentation

Still achieving, still pursuing.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: achievement mission goal vision fulfillment success work effort

Action without thought is like shooting without aim.
American proverb The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
Categories: action thought vision planning mission goal success failure

Fight till the last gasp.
William Shakespeare, from King Henry VI Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Categories: persevere determination work effort vision mission courage bravery

To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.
Samuel Smiles The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: self-confidence positive thinking achievement goal vision determination persevere

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.
Shirley Hufstedler Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: risk bravery courage vision mission opportunity success caution

There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering Words for All Occasions
Categories: opportunities attitude optimism optimist optimistic self-confidence vision success

Life is at best only a children's game. Yet the game must be played conscientiously.
Yukichi Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: life meaning purpose vision character work effort integrity

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: thought action work effort planning vision achievement success

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.
J. Sidlow Baxter Words for All Occasions
Categories: attitude character vision problems obstacles challenges difficulties opportunities

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal.
Mary Beard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: action planning vision leadership effort work achievement success

Now that we know we can't change the past we can realize that at this very moment we have the wonderful opportunity to begin anew! If you want something there is simply no better time than right now to pursue it!
Josh Hinds Inspiration a Day! mailing list
Categories: opportunity past future vision goal growth change success

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes The 13 Secrets of Power Performance
Categories: direction vision mision goal action work effort success

I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: start begin finish complete vision goal mission planning

Now is the time.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: work action effort vision risk bravery courage strength

Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: success talent ability work effort goal vision mission

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: progress growth achievement success goal vision mission meaning

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Winston Churchill The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: optimism pessimism attitude focus vision perspective negative positive

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think, is to weave them into garlands.
Anne Sophie Swetchine Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: ideas thought thinking planning vision mission creativity imagination

Reality - Dreams = Animal Being
Reality + Dreams = A Heart-Ache (usually called Idealism)
Reality + Humor = Realism (also called Conservatism)
Dreams - Humor = Fanaticism
Dreams + Humor = Fantasy
Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom
Lin Yutang The Importance of Living
Categories: idealism realism humor humility character vision perspective wisdom

A thought that does not result in action is nothing much, and an action that does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: planning vision work effort achievement success thought action

It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David Thoreau The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: busy business work goal purpose vision mission planning meaning

You are the product of your own brainstorm.
Rosemary Konner Steinbaum Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: ideas character creativity personality vision mission goals dreams direction

If a man carefully examines his thoughts, he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: thoughts future perspective life living goal dream vision balance

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.
Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
Categories: meditation self-awareness choices responsibility focus soul goals vision mission

Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau Light from Many Lamps
Categories: success work effort vision goal failure self-improvement growth mission

Devotion is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
J.F.T. Bugental Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: purpose fulfillment meaning focus dedication vision mission goal success

Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: focus excellence success vision mission priorities work talent skill

Nobody sees a flower--really--it is so small it takes time--we haven't time--and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
Georgia O'Keefe The Artist's Way
Categories: vision nature beauty discovery friendship relationships busyness time patience

He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life.
Henry David Thoreau The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: life time success priorities focus vision mission goal happiness

You've got to take initiative and play your game...confidence makes the difference.
Chris Evert Treasury of Women's Quotations
Categories: self-esteem self-assured self-determination work effort attitude motivation self-confidence vision

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: present desire imagination vision goal joy happiness memories memory future

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others but to get ahead of ourselves--to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterdays by our today, to do our work with more force than before.
Stewart B. Johnson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work success achievement attainment competition competitive vision self-improvement growth

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.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: life living opportunity values goals vision mission obstacles challenges

Anxiety and fear produce energy. Where we focus that energy noticeably affects the quality of our lives:

Focus on the solution, not the problem.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
Categories: anxiety fear energy problems challenges difficulties circumstances focus vision

It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Jerry Greenfield, cofounder of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: mistakes success failure leadership risk bravery strength courage vision

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
Categories: happiness joy meaning purpose fulfillment goals mission vision achievement success

Commitment is the cornerstone of creative change.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: commitment goal vision mission change self-improvement growth determination persevere

Safe is all right for the brain dead; safe means they can't screw it up. It also means they can't be great.
Doug Hall Jump Start Your Brain
Categories: risk courage bravery strength safety success mistakes vision action

Today many American corporations spend a great deal of money and time trying to increase the originality of their employees, hoping thereby to get a competitive edge in the marketplace. But such programs make no difference unless management also learns to recognize the valuable ideas among the many novel ones, and then finds ways of implementing them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Finding Flow: The Psychololgy of Engagement With Everyday Life
Categories: creativity innovation business success achievement managing vision employee recognition

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.
Abraham Maslow Thoughts on Leadership
Categories: personal growth self-improvement potential vision dreams goals mission future

Boldness is the fruit of hope.
Phillipine proverb The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs
Categories: action boldness hope vision success achievement risk courage daring

The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life. This is the hidden, undergirding occupation beneath anyone's meaningful purpose.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: life vocation living goal vision mission purpose fulfillment creativity

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He's got to keep on delivering as he goes along.
Carl Hubbell The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: reputation pride conceit vanity success work effort vision service

One of the signs of maturity is a healthy respect for reality -- a respect that manifests itself in the level of one's aspirations and in the accuracy of one's assessment of the difficulties which separate the facts of today from the bright hopes of tomorrow.
Robert H. Davies The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: hope future present difficulties problems challenges adversity vision dreams goals

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

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.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: apathy fatigue energy goals hope vision creativity resistance restlessness purpose

It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: intentions action success aspiration growth goal vision mission effort work

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: goal achievement success purpose focus vision mission work life living

When you decide clearly and definitely what you want, then no sacrifice is too great as you put all of your powers into astounding results.
Charles L. Allen in "How to Get What You Want" Treasury of Inspiration
Categories: focus clarity vision purpose goal mission visualization determination achievement success

An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.
Samuel Johnson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: time life work effort success goal vision planning priorities balance

In each of our lives, for whatever reason, there are times that we are faced with things that just don't make sense to us. And the more we struggle to understand our hardships, the less any of it makes sense.
I have found that in every challenge and obstacle that we are faced with there *can* be good that can come from it! While it's almost never easy to identify, I assure you that it is there lying dormant just waiting for us to release it! I urge everyone to spend your days looking for positives in your life.
Josh Hinds The Inspiration a Day! mailing list, April 8, 1998.
Categories: blessings positive focus attitude gratitude struggle problem difficulties obstacles vision

Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Grenville Kleiser The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: achievement success work focus persevere self-denial vision mission luck purpose

Sometimes we become locked into a short-term pattern of reacting to immediate needs and missing the long-term benefits of positioning ourselves to deal with more important life issues and priorities.
Eric Allenbaugh Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: choice responsibility reaction long-term future priorities planning balance vision

We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
Categories: persistence persevere success determination desire vision mission goal work effort

Five minutes, just before going to sleep, given to a bit of directed imagination regarding achievement possibilities of the morrow, will steadily and increasingly bear fruit, particularly if all ideas of difficulty, worry or fear are resolutely ruled out and replaced by those of accomplishment and smiling courage.
Frederick Pierce The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: meditation visualization success planning vision mission achievement opportunity opportunities attitude

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: vision mission happiness joy fulfillment balance meaning happy determination goal purpose

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: excellence vocation opportunity mastery models inspiration guidance fulfillment vision potential

Most of us visualize on a daily basis, but we often do it unconsciously and in a negative fashion. It is called worrying. What happens to our bodies when we worry? We tense up, disrupt our normal breathing, and psycho-physically prepare ourselves for failure. Instead, learn to use positive visualization to prepare yourself for success. As you do you will transform the energy that supports your worrying into fuel for making your dreams come true.
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
Categories: visualization success failure worry stress wellness breathing energy dreams vision

When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an increasing sense of power.
Grenville Kleiser The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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But the fruit that can fall without shaking,
``Indeed is too mellow for me.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
Albert Einstein The Quotable Einstein
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The dream was always running ahead of one. To catch up, to live for a moment in union with it, that was the miracle.
Anais Nin Simple Abundance
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Keep in mind that each of you has your own vineyard. But every one is joined to your neighbor's vineyards without any dividing lines. They are so joined together, in fact, that you cannot do good or evil for yourself without doing the same for your neighbors.
Catherine of Sienna The Dialog by Catherine of Sienna, as quoted in "Wisdom of the Mothers" by Wendy M. Wright in the July/August 1997 issue of Weavings.
Categories: interdependence interdependency neighbors actions consequences choices responsibility community society win/win vision

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw The Book of Positive Quotations
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Maturity is achieved with a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.
Joshua L. Liebman The Forbes Book of Business Quotations: 14,266 Thoughts on the Business of Life
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The only difference between a thought and physical reality is time, passion (love or hate), and physical activity.
Peter McWilliams You Can't Afford the Luxury of a Negative Thought
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Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations.
George Santayana Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
Categories: aging elderly aged spirituality balance wisdom growth self-improvement perspective vision education

...gradual change is usually more fruitful in the long run than is forced, ultra-aggressive upheaval. Undertaken wisely, steady transitions cultivate authenticity, groundedness, and virtues--like patience, compassion (for self and others), and perseverance. All these qualities improve your probability of success when, ultimately, you do figure out how to actualize your personal vision.
Marsha Sinetar To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
Categories: change progress future vision authenticity virtues patience compassion perseverance success actualization

Every industrious man, in every lawful calling, is a useful man. And one principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: work effort self-respect usefulness focus balance priorities planning vision mission success

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Admiral Collingwood The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston Churchill Power Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Don't wait for your "ship to come in," and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.
Irene Kassorla Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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Do not waste worry. If you're going to worry, worry well. Put that energy to good use; aim it at an answer. Don't forget: Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
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Success is 99 percent failure.
Soichiro Honda Bits & Pieces magazine
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One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Hazlitt The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made.
Henry B. Wilson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.
Aldous Huxley The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Norman Vincent Peale Positive Thinking Every Day
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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.
Earl Graves To Build the Life You Want, Create the Work You Love: The Spiritual Dimension of Entrepreneuring
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We shall never have more time. We have, and have always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going day in and day out. Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
Arnold Bennett The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
Mme. Du Deffand The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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If you are clear about what you want, the world responds with clarity.
Loretta Staples Creating a Life Worth Living
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Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation?
Jane Austen Treasury of Women's Quotations
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Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.
Robert Schuller Franklin Day Planner, July 2, 1993
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
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Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller The Book of Positive Quotations
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In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Anne Armstrong The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Quotations
Categories: brain thought cognition planning vision foresight mind leadership excellence self-determination responsibility mission wisdom

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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds Soar... If You Dare: And Use Your Secret Powers for Success To Make Your Dreams Come True!
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.
William A. Ward Words for All Occasions
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A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.
John 13:34 Holy Bible
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap, the being a force of nature instead of a feverish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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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.
Carol Lloyd Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: curiosity inpsiration inspired motivated procrastination fear dreams ideas vision mission goals success achievement curious

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll, from Through the Looking Glass The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase, Saying, and Quotation
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worth cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt Bits & Pieces magazine
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Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As children, we are seldom told we have a place in life that is uniquely ours alone. Instead, we are encouraged to believe that our life should somehow fulfill the expectations of others, that we will (or should) find our satisfactions as they have found theirs. Rather than being taugh to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others' versions of ourselves. We are brought up in our life as told to us by someone else! When we survey our lives, seeking to fulfill our creativity, we often see we had a dream that went glimmering because we believed, and those around us believed, that the dream was beyond our reach. Many of us would have been, or at least might have been, done, tried something, if...
If we had known who we really were.
Julie Cameron The Vein of Gold : A Journey to Your Creative Heart
Categories: destiny dream goal vision childraising self-determination self-esteem expectations happiness success creativity imagination potential self-knowledge

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Walter Anderson The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment
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If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
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Always there will be, along the sidelines of life, inferior souls who throw mud at those whose attainments they do not quite understand. The man who really accomplishes doesn't pay attention to such detractors. If he did, he'd be on their level. He keeps an eye singled on the higher goal--and the mud never touches him.
Jerome P. Fleishman The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: criticism critics negativity negative negativism opinions success achievement accomplishment goal vision mission singlemindedness focus determination

There's no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there's no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you'd never make.
Spirella The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: satisfaction fulfillment meaning purpose success overcome overcoming obstacles challenges difficulties problems achievement goal mission vision

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done--this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker Light from Many Lamps
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Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations
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We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can! Every great achievement was first carefully thought out...Think--but to a purpose. Think constructively. Think as you read. Think as you listen. Think as you travel and your eyes reveal new situations. Think as you work daily at your desk, or in the field, or while strolling. Think to rise and improve your place in life. There can be no advancement or success without serious thought.
George Matthew Adams The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them gratified. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy...
``To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Samuel Johnson Light from Many Lamps
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Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
Andrew Carnegie The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
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Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.
Charles Swindoll The Quest for Character
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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. As to methods there may be a million and then some, but the principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Book of Positive Quotations
Categories: ambition work dream vision goal principles methods work effort action planning

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.
Carol Lloyd Creating a Life Worth Living
Categories: goals success achievement self-confidence self-esteem vision goals joy

Very fortunately, man is also gifted with a sense of humor, whose function, as I conceive it, is to exercise criticism of man's dreams, and bring them in touch with the world of reality. It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
Lin Yutang The Importance of Living
Categories: dreams humor proportion humility dreams vision realism

I've never been afraid to fail.
Michael Jordan, at the press conference where he announced he was leaving the NBA to pursue a career in baseball. Lessons from the Art of Juggling; How to Achieve Your Full Potential in Business, Learning and Life
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Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Norman Vincent Peale Have a Great Day
Categories: potential possibility possibilities determination attitude belief ability vision goal planning success ability

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Norman Vincent Peale Have a Great Day
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler Wake-Up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk Through Your Life, Love, or Career!
Categories: risk courage strength bravery success failure mistake vision strength goals life living achievement

Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
William Feather The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: idea creativity ability vision leadership dream goal effectiveness laziness work effort outcome persistence determination skills talent success achievement

The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Words for All Occasions
Categories: work effort determination persevere vision success greatness goal achievement achievement excellence leadership ambition desire

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.
Thomas J. Watson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Categories: 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

It is amazing that our souls--our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world--are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition.
Marion Woodman from the essay "Soul Moments" Handbook for the Soul
Categories: souls pain emotions depression hope dream vision suffering spirituality illness physical body mortality cancer terminal illness disability overcoming

...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.
Warren Bennis On Becoming a Leader
Categories: 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

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.
Jan Ashford Treasury of Women's Quotations
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away...And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13 Holy Bible
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