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Low Expectations

“No one rises to low expectations.” – Les Brown


The Most Important Thing About Goals

“The most important thing about goals is having one.” – Geoffrey F. Abert


Dream Big Dreams

“Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.” – Mac Anderson


Alignment and Balance

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” – Brian Tracy


Possibilities and Opportunities

“This is a wonderful time to be alive. There have never been more possibilities and opportunities for you to achieve more of your goals than exist today. As perhaps never before in human history, you are actually drowning in options. In fact, there are so many good things that you can do, that your ability to decide among them may be the critical determinant of what you accomplish in life.” – Brian Tracy


Goals and Failures

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


The Route to Success

“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.” – Pablo Picasso


The Tragedy of Life

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays


The Only Time That is Yours is the Present

“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.” – Grenville Kleiser


Plant that Seed

“All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.” – Earl Nightingale


Steps, Not Leaps

“Those who would climb to a lofty height must go by steps, not leaps.” – St. Gregory the Great


A Little More

“Every day we should do a little more than is required.” – Helen Keller


Getting Organized

My sister was bemoaning the fact that she had procrastinated cleaning and organizing her house for a long time. Since she was planning to entertain, she felt a lot of pressure to get moving.

That afternoon she phoned, sounding glum. “I went to the bookstore,” she explained. “And I bought a book on how to get organized. I was all fired up, and decided to clean out all the shelves in the living room. While I was working, I found the same book. I had bought it a couple of years ago.”


Begin Where You Are

“Begin where you are, but don’t stay where you are.”


Someday I'll

Many of our personal goals are stranded on a little island called the “Someday I’ll.” – Roger von Oech


Lofty Dreams and Lowly Goals

“I would rather have lofty dreams that are never fulfilled than lowly goals that are easily accomplished.” – Jim Watkins


Motivation is

“Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.” – Parkes Robinson


Frog Racing

Once upon a time there was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began and no one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.

You heard statements such as, “Oh, WAY too difficult!!” “They will NEVER make it to the top.” “Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!”

The tiny frogs began collapsing one by one, except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and
higher. The crowd continued to yell, “It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!” More tiny frogs got tired and gave up.

But ONE continued higher and higher and higher. This one wouldn’t give up! Finally, everyone else had given
up climbing the tower, except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!

All of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it. A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal? It turned out that the winner was DEAF.


Leap High

“He who would leap high must take a long run.” – Danish Proverb



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