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Sep 10, 2025
The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money and/or advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises... or not! Ha!
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.
Choose the mountain you want to climb: don't pay attention to what other people say, such as "that one's more beautiful" or "this one's easier". You'll be spending lots of energy and enthusiasm to reach your objective, so you're the only one responsible and you should be sure of what you're doing.
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
Most of the things we spend our lives chasing will turn to dust in the end.
We'd achieve more if we chase the dream instead of the competition.
Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
So I am happy with what I did. And I tell you something, when an artist does something, he doesn't have at the beginning, big goals and objectives, you do the thing because you love it.
It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.
The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It's never outside.
Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might
The image of where you are going has to be more dominant than the image of where you are.
Happiness is a myth we seek, If manifested surely irks; Like river speeding to the plain, On its arrival slows and murks. For man is happy only in His aspiration to the heights; When he attains his goal, he cools And longs for other distant flights.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.
Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.
I believe it is of particular importance in our day, when Satan is raging in the hearts of men in so many new and subtle ways, that our choices and decisions be made carefully, consistent with the goals and objectives by which we profess to live. We need unequivocal commitment to the commandments and strict adherence to sacred covenants. When we allow rationalizations to prevent us from temple endowments, worthy missions, and temple marriage, they are particularly harmful. It is heartbreaking when we profess belief in these goals yet neglect the everyday conduct required to achieve them.
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.
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.
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
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
When the promise is clear, the price gets easy
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.
Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life. The most effective men and women in every area are those who can quite competently organize the cooperation and assistance of other people toward the accomplishment of important goals and objectives.
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
If you don't know where you're going any road will do