What Is A Great Aphorism Or Quote That Has To Do With Setting And Attaining Goals?

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I am writing a college essay and I need a fantastic quote or aphorism to begin with. It needs to be about goals or achievement or the future. Thanks :)

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February 9, 2010

Anonymous @ 6:39 pm #

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.Henry Ward Beecher
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.Lee Iacocca
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog
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. Seneca
There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second. Logan Pearsall Smith
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland
The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.Michel de Montaigne
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.Kahlil Gibran
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant with the weak and wrong…because sometime in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver
More here:http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/goa…

Volusian @ 10:23 pm #

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.
~ William Feather ~
If you never budge, don’t expect a push.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes ~
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
~ John W. Gardner ~
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
~ Erica Jong ~
There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range
risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
~ John F. Kennedy ~
It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy ~
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged
all their lives.
~ Walter Lippmann ~
Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.
~ Cadet Maxim ~
Who dares wins.
~ Motto of the British Special Air Service ~
Never tell me the odds.
~ Star Wars – Han Solo Movie ~
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
~ Henry Cardinal Newman ~
Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
~ Alex Noble ~
Educated risks are the key to success.
~ William Olsten ~
“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked pensively. “You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”
~ Trina Paulus ~
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.
~ Pilpay ~
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
Henry David Thoreau
If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances.
~ Alberto Salazar ~
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
~ Frank Scully ~
If you are never scared, embarrassed, or hurt, it means you never take chances.
~ Julia Soul ~
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
~ Alvin Toffler ~
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
~ Source Unknown ~
If your life is free of failures, you’re not taking enough risks.
~ Source Unknown ~
If you want to stand out, don’t be different, be outstanding.
~ Meredith West ~
Progress always involves risk you can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.
~ Frederick Wilcox ~
Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.
~ George E. Woodberry ~
Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration
Thomas Edison
Whether you think you can do a thing or not do a thing, you’re right.
Henry Ford
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.
Napoleon Hill
As a man thinketh, so he is.
The Bible
Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
~ Robert Frost ~
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, it might have been!”
John Greenleaf Whittier
And the one my dad always told me about the importance of setting ablishing goals, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll never get there.”

February 10, 2010

Stuart S @ 4:59 am #

Zig Ziglar has some great stories and anecdotes in his videos on goals setting. I have referenced them below:
Part 1:http://successhomeworking.blogspot.com/2…
Part 2:http://successhomeworking.blogspot.com/2…
Part 3http://successhomeworking.blogspot.com/2…

Enigmatic J`s Sandie xxx aaahhh @ 6:48 am #

Our school badge on blazers and berets was
Abeunt Studia In Mores………… I thought it meant Study makes the character or something along those lines

LucaPaci @ 11:47 am #

Success is not measured by an absolute. (E.g. making a small fortune after starting with a large one is no success at all.)
Success is making the most possible out of whatever hand you are dealt.

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