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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. ~Lawrence J. Peter
It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done. ~Samuel Johnson, in Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1770
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. ~Doug Larson
Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. ~T.S. Eliot
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~Charles DeLint
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~Douglas Adams
The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, An Address to the Students of the Faculty of Medicine in University College, London, May 18, 1870, On the Occasion of the Distribution of Prizes for the Session (Thanks, Paul)
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power
Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown
Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. ~Adolph Monod
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. ~Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ~Life's Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier
It is never too late to be who you might have been. ~George Eliot
Success is 10% inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. ~From a billboard advertisement
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. ~Eva Young
I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants. ~Zig Ziglar
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown
How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to? ~Anthony Robbins
Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading. ~Kevin Smith
The impossible is often the untried. ~Jim Goodwin
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs. ~Vance Havner
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top. ~Arnold Bennett
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done. ~Henry Ford
Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes. ~Author Unknown
We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
When I was a Boy Scout, we played a game when new Scouts joined the troop. We lined up chairs in a pattern, creating an obstacle course through which the new Scouts, blindfolded, were supposed to maneuver. The Scoutmaster gave them a few moments to study the pattern before our adventure began. But as soon as the victims were blindfolded, the rest of us quietly removed the chairs. I think life is like this game. Perhaps we spend our lives avoiding obstacles we have created for ourselves and in reality exist only in our minds. We're afraid to apply for that job, take violin lessons, learn a foreign language, call an old friend, write our Congressman - whatever it is that we would really like to do but don't because of personal obstacles. Don't avoid any chairs until you run smack into one. And if you do, at least you'll have a place to sit down. ~Pierce Vincent Eckhart
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade. ~Attributed to both James Charlton and H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. ~Beverly Sills
If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day. ~Ringo Starr
Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hell! There ain't no rules around here! We're trying to accomplish somep'n. ~Thomas Alva Edison
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. ~Andre Gide
Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once. ~Isaac Asimov
The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996
The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 July 1763
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. ~Bruce Feirstein, Tomorrow Never Dies (screenplay)
If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. ~Author Unknown
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, Walden, 1854