Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
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Quotes tagged ‘Goals’
My goal is not to wake up at forty with the bitter realization that I've wasted my life in a job I hate, because I was forced to decide on a career in my teens.
— Peggy Nicoll, Daria Morgendorffer, Tracy Grandstaff, imdb.com
Eliminate the variable. Strike as close as you can to the point of origin or destination.
It takes a lot of strength to speak in public about your goals. And their strength proves the transformation that can happen when a young woman, at a crucial stage of her life, is empowered with the simple message that her dreams do matter.
Some people should stop worrying about what others are doing and focus on their own dreams and goals.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed.
If people always thought this way, there could never be progress or innovation or change. We would be stagnant forever, fearfully clinging to a past that was never as good as we like to pretend it was.
Make a to-do list every single day. Always put 'accomplish none of my goals' on the to-do list. That way, at the end of every day you’ll be able to say you at least accomplished one task.
I’m working on seeing and appreciating what’s already around me, and not just what I aspire to.
Dream about it like a child, fight for it like a grown up. Every single day.
When life gives you lemons, plant the lemon seeds. Grow lemon trees. Pick the lemons from the trees. Now you have more lemons. Accumulate those useless lemons. More. More lemons. Accumulate all those useless lemons just to spite life for giving them to you in the first place.
There have so been many things in my life that didn't work out the way I thought I wanted to, that, looking back, I am very grateful did not happen. Different things await you. Keep going. Your only job is to keep going.
I can guarantee you that everyone you look up to has faced failure and rejection thousands more times in their life than any sort of success. It's part of the path of making the thing. Maybe the most important. Your only job is to keep going.
What you FOCUS on grows.
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.
Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It's a shield.
I'm not sure relief is the right word, but satisfaction probably is. They worked hard and accomplished their goal.
Getting motivated doesn't mean that you should stick to it. Just let it go if you find something better. Life is too short to limit yourself to what you were motivated to do for a moment.