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Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, and you don't branch out, you don't try-you don't take the risk.

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

A winner is someone who recognizes his God- given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.