“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.  — Ben Stein

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he’ll never move. Paulo Coelho

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that it is too low and we reach it.  — Michelangelo

I’m a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it’s about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us. –Jack Canfield

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. –J.M. Power

Thinking

If you think you are beaten, you are
If you think you dare not, you don’t,
If you like to win, but you think you can’t
It is almost certain you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose, you’re lost
For out of the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow’s will
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are
You’ve got to think high to rise,
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the man WHO THINKS HE CAN!

–Dr. Walter D. Wintle

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. –Dennis Waitley

The secret to productive goal setting is establishing clearly defined
goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several
times a day with words and emotions as if we’ve already
achieved them.    — Denis Waitley

“Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.  –Brian Tracy