Best goal & obstacles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.”

“Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.”

“Between you and every goal that you wish to achieve, there is a series of obstacles, and the bigger the goal, the bigger the obstacles.”

Wish Goal Achieve Bigger Difficulty Series Obstacles

Author:Brian Tracy

“Evolution is an obstacle course not a freeway; the correct analogue for long-term success is a distant punt receiver evading legions of would-be tacklers in an oddly zigzagged path toward a goal, not a horse thundering down the flat.”

Long Would Be Courses Goal Term Path Evolution Horse Obstacles Long Term Flats Receiver Legion Freeways Analogue Long Term Success

Book:Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“As we educate a child -- removing out of its path those obstacles over which we ourselves, in early days, have stumbled, and strengthening its mind with the aid of our own matured experience -- we, as it were, construct a new and better replica of ourselves, and thus enable the race to move slowly, but surely, forward towards the ultimate goal of existence -- towards perfection.”

Mind Children Moving Goal Race Existence Path Perfection Ultimate Obstacles Aids Educate Constructs Strengthening Ultimate Goal Matured Moving Out Replica Slowly But Surely

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“Devotion to your goal makes you live a clean and orderly life , given to search for truthand to helping people, and realization makes noble virtue easy and spontaneous, by removing for good the obstacles in the shape of desires and fears and wrong ideas .”

People Ideas Helping Desire Given Easy Goal Virtue Shapes Clean Obstacles Noble Devotion Realization Spontaneous Helping People Orderly Search For Truth Wrong Ideas

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life...and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive.”

Moments Goal Challenges Focus Achieve Healthy Obstacles Setting Goals Rise Above Healthy Life Challenge Yourself

Author:Robert H. Goddard

“If the people around you are negative and you can't change that, either remove yourself from the situation or view it simply as one obstacle you face in pursuing your own potential. Stay focused on your own goals and make the best of the situation.”

People Ifs Faces Goal Views Situation Negative Obstacles Focused Remove Can't Change Stay Focused

Book:Embracing Your Potential

Source: Embracing Your Potential

“I think the key to success is vision that adjusts on the way, but doesn’t at all falter. It’s about not compromising and following your gut to a certain degree, based on knowledge, instinct, etc. And not listening to the naysayers.... You develop strength through adversity. You have to keep moving towards your goal through huge obstacles.”

“We cannot create blueprint for future society, but it is good to think about that. It is good to have in mind a goal. It is constructive, it is helpful, it is healthy, to think about what future society might be like, because then it guides you somewhat what you are doing today, but only so long as this discussions about future society don't become obstacles to working towards this future society. Otherwise you can spend discussing this utopian possibility versus that utopian possibility, and in the mean time you are not acting in a way that would bring you closer to that.”

Thinking Way Mind Mean Long Might Today Goal Acting Possibility Healthy Obstacles Guides Discussion Helpful Versus Constructive Discussing Utopian Blueprints Future Society

Author:Howard Zinn

“God's righteousness and His unchangeable law make Christianity a stumbling block for many. Organizations and individuals carry a political and moral agenda that aims to remove all obstacles to their sin. Their goal is to 'break God's bands asunder and cast away His cords.' They counsel together to rid themselves of the law of God; anyone who preaches the gospel or stands for righteousness stands in the way of their agenda.”

Source: Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God

“The problems with willpower are many, but they may hardly be noticed by the person focused narrowly on success. First, there is little economy of means; in systems thinking terms, we act without leverage. We attain our goals, but the effort is enormous and we may find ourselves exhausted and wondering if it was worth it when we have succeeded. Ironically, people hooked on willpower may actually look for obstacles to overcome, dragons to slay, and enemies to vanquish--to remind themselves and others of their own prowess.”

“A lot of times when I'm in the gym, I might not have that energy but I realize what I'm doing it for and it gives me the strength to do one more extra rep, to do one more set or to push even harder, and to not let whatever obstacle is in front of me stop me from reaching my goal.”

Giving Might Energy Goal Realizing Fronts Give Me Harder Obstacles Extras Reaching Gym Give Me Strength

Author:Dwight Howard

“We're going to face problems on a day to day basis and there's probably going to be that one obstacle that you think oh I'm not going to be able to get through it but just remember if you set your mind to achieve a goal, then you can do it.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Problem Able Remember Faces Goal Can Do Achieve Bases Obstacles Day To Day You Can Do It

Author:Patrick Henry Hughes

“An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel”

Men Eye Goal Obstacles Great Men Life And Love Personnel

Author:Paul Goodman

“I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile.”

Want Giving Eye Goal Style Wall Giving Up Obstacles Worthwhile Bedroom Motto Bedroom Wall

Author:Chris Burke

“Achievers are resolute in their goals and driven by determination. Discouragement is temporary, obstacles are overcome, and doubt is defeated, yielding to personal victory. You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals. Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

“Obstacles are only in your view when you don't have a clear enough focus on your goal.”

Enough Goal Views Clear Focus Obstacles

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“Each nation has different obstacles and different goals, shaped by the vagaries of history and of experience. Yet as I talk to young people around the world I am impressed not by the diversity but by the closeness of their goals, their desires and their concerns and their hope for the future.”

People World Different Young Desire Nations Goal Diversity Concern Obstacles Around The World Impressed Closeness Hope For The Future

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Made Ends Faces Goal Decision Mistake Risk Achieve Tomorrow Okay Obstacles Fewer Loose Ends

Author:Seth Godin

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