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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.
Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That's dedication.
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Aim :
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
Aim for the highest.
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Attitude
Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without the hope of emancipation.
Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
Often attitudes are kindled in the flame of others’ convictions.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Optimism is the one quality more associated with success and happiness than any other.
Optimism means expecting the best, but confidence means knowing how to handle the worst. Never make a move if you are merely optimistic.
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Commitment
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
The probability that we may fail in struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
The truth shall make you free.
Eddie Robinson: Commitment Quotations
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Pat Riley: Commitment Quotations
There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or out. There's no such thing as a life in-between.
There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. ~Sally Field
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie
Which we ascribe to heaven.
~William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley
It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies. ~Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. ~W.C. Fields
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. ~Vincent Van Gogh
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly. ~Buckminster Fuller
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown
Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown
What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan
I am not a has-been. I am a will be. ~Lauren Bacall
I'm not old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run that fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk. ~Edward J. McGrath, Jr., "An Exceptional View of Life," quoted in Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen, 1993
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Author Unknown
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. ~Peter T. Mcintyre
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ~Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1969
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours. ~Richard Bach, Illusions
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. ~Mark Twain
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. ~Bruce Barton
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ~Sydney Smith
Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway. ~Mary Kay Ash
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ~Norman Vincent Peale
Always act like you're wearing an invisible crown. ~Author Unknown
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich
Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being. ~Michel de Montaigne
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet. ~Sa'Di
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. ~Sally Kempton, Esquire, 1970
When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there. ~Cecil Selig
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ~Les Brown
You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss
Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control. ~Richard Kline
Knock the "t" off the "can't." ~Samuel Johnson
