Goals

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. – Andre Gide

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. – Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. – George Bernard Shaw

There is one quality more important than “know-how” and we cannot accuse the United States of any undue amount of it. This is “know-what” by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1954

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. – Jack Dixon

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed â€” they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? â€” the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man

Know your limits, but never stop trying to exceed them. – Author Unknown

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. – Zig Ziglar

Word by word the big books are made. – French Proverb

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. – Will Smith

The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. – Jennifer Yane

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. – T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Drift-Wood

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. – Peter Drucker

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet. – Author Unknown

In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. – B. Zander, The Art of Possibility

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single happy delusion that it can be done without a stop-over. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com