If you don't have a well-thought out dream, you can start by figuring out where you want to go. If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community you live (from restaurants...
God did not simply decide to create heaven and earth. He had a vision
Never focus on achieving your goals, focus on achieving the behaviors and beliefs that will help you achieve your goals
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of Uncle Tom's Children. When the review of that book began to appear, I realized that I had made an awful naive mistake. I fo...
As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.
I tell kids to have dreams, have goals, and believe in them because if you have any doubt, worry or fear, it will choke the life out of your dreams and goals.
Only when men are connected to large universal goals are they really happy-and one result of their happiness is a rush of creative activity.
A determinate purpose of life and steady adhesion to it through all disadvantages are indispensable conditions of success.
Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.
What our deepest self craves is not mere enjoyment but some supreme purpose that will enlist all our powers and give unity and direction to our life.
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not...
Life is an end in itself and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
One of the most important factors not only in military matters but in life as a whole is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.
You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.
You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do-or don't do.
To have a reason to get up in the morning it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.