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One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.
Sep 16, 2025
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
My favorite thing about coaching? Teaching. Being around young people, just watching a player grow and develop. You know, a young man comes in with dreams and goals and ambitions and just helping him reach (them). It's like your dad watching you grow up and like me watching my boys grow.
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.
The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.
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.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.
It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
The desire to reach hearts is wise
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
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
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.