Goals And Ambitions Quotes:

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.

- Shane Warne

topic: Attitude, Ambition, Player, Different Attitude, Goals And Ambitions

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Jack Penn

topic: Inspirational, Block, Secret, Secret Life, Inspirational Goal

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Work, People, Goal, Inspirational Passion, Passion For Work

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T. S. Eliot

source: T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Fear None, Courage To Change

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Conquering an Enemy Called Average". Book by John Mason, 1996.

topic: Positive, Shortcuts, Grad, Go Hard, Inspirational Graduation

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.

- Sheryl Sandberg

source: "Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2013.

topic: Ambition, Passion, Goal, Live With Passion, Personal Improvement

It is never too late to be who you want to be.

- George Eliot

topic: Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are, Meant To Be Alone, Achieving Your Goals

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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational Life, Ambition, People, Social Entrepreneurship, Importunate

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

- Sidney Howard

topic: Inspirational, Life, Giving Up, Knowing What You Want, Goals And Ambitions

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

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.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Attitude, Inspirational Coaching

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Reaching For The Stars, My Ambition

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Top Management, Marketing And Sales

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Motivational, Eye, Goal, Hurdling Obstacles, Making A Fool Of Yourself

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

- Doug Larson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Marathon Motivational, Inspirational Achievement

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- John Dewey

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Inspirational Goal Setting, Starting Point

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Goal, Inspirational Goal Setting, Success Is Not Measured

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

- Will Smith

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Inspirational Goal, Goals And Ambitions

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Social Entrepreneurship, Inspiration To Write

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Time, Life Ambition, My Ambition

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Goal, Goals And Ambitions

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

- George Eliot

topic: Successful, Goal, Too Late, Inspirational Goal, Meant To Be Alone

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Fitness, Thought Of The Day, Self Determination

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Success, Business, Moving, Written Goals, Goals And Ambitions

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.

- Doug Larson

topic: Inspirational, Goal, Interesting, Inspirational Goal, Have A Great Day

Dreams, goals, ambitions - these are the stuff man uses for fuel.

- L. Ron Hubbard

source: L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.129, Bridge Publications, Inc.

topic: Dream, Ambition, Men, Ambitions And Dreams, Goals And Ambitions

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Life, Ambition, Long, Dissatisfaction, Ambitious Goals

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?

- Tony Robbins

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Motivation, Goals And Ambitions, Unlimited Power

One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Goal, Missing, Goals And Ambitions, High Goals

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.

- George Lucas

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Achieving Your Goals, Goal Achievement

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.

- Elbert Hubbard

topic: Motivational, Change, Positive, Irony Of Life, Moving To Fast

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

- Charles Douglas Jackson

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Success, Landing, Goals And Ambitions

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

- Alan Lightman

source: Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.33, Vintage

topic: Ambition, Suffering, World, Goals And Ambitions

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

- Adolphe Monod

topic: Inspirational, Danger, Great Things, Inspirational Goal, Dreams And Goals

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.

- Harvey Mackay

source: Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

topic: Moving On, Morning, Giving, Ambitious Goals, Goals And Ambitions

It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible

- Steve Miller

topic: Successful, Too Late, Might, Achieving Success, Goals And Ambitions

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

- Douglas Adams

source: "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Hilarious, Novel Writing, Sound Doctrine

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.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: "Walden". Book by Henry David Thoreau, 1854.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live For Yourself, Man Of My Dreams

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

- Farrah Gray

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from May 27, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Dream, Journey To Success, Inspirational Attitude

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Goal Setting

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.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Ambition, Clear Goals, Average, Motivation Goal Setting, Motivational Goal