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You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about.
Sep 17, 2025
The privilege of a middle-class, stable, bourgeois life is that you can pretend that you are not complicated and project yourself as a solid, uncomplicated person, with refined life goals and achievements.
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader.
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.
You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Develop a sense of urgency in your life.
Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.
Put your future in good hands. Your own.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
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.
A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.
Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The value of achievement lies in the achieving.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
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.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.