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If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.
Sep 10, 2025
If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.
Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand & work with whatever tools you may have.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
If you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives.
It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Put your future in good hands. Your own.
The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
Always begin with the end in mind.
Begin with the end in mind.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do