Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. – Les Brown
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. – Les Brown
Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. – Les Brown
You may not accomplish every goal you set — no one does — but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. – Les Brown
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed — 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? — the cuckoo clock. – Graham Greene and Orson Wells, The Third Man