The document contains a collection of quotes about goals and achieving objectives. The quotes emphasize that defining clear goals and having a single overriding objective is important for success. They also stress that goals should be challenging but achievable, and that persistence is needed to achieve goals through difficulties. Maintaining a vision of one's goals is important for staying motivated.

1. GOALS
An accumulation of quotations
to stimulate and motivate
gathered by Richard Randolph

2. We succeed only as we identify
in life, or in war, or in anything else, a
single overriding objective, and make all
other considerations bend to that one
objective.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

3. Efforts and courage
are not enough
without purpose and
direction.
~ John F. Kennedy

4. In the absence of clearly-
defined goals, we become
strangely loyal to performing
daily trivia until ultimately we
become enslaved by it.
~ Robert Heinlein

5. It’s all knowing
what to start with.
If you start in the
right place and follow
all the steps, you will
get to the right end.
~ Elizabeth Moon

6. 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.
~ Denis Watley

7. Few people take objectives really
seriously. They put average effort
into too many things, rather than
superior thought and effort into a
few important things. People who
achieve the most are selective as
well as determined.
~ Richard Koch

8. 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.
~ Kurt Lewin

9. Before you begin a thing, remind yourself
that difficulties and delays quite impossible
to foresee are ahead. If you could see
them clearly, naturally you could do a great
deal to get rid of them, but you can’t.
You can only see one thing clearly and that
is your goal. Form a mental vision of that
and cling to it through thick and thin.
~ Kathleen Norris

10. It must be borne in mind that the tragedy
of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your
goal. It lies in having no goal to reach. It
is not a calamity to die with dreams
unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars,
but it is a disgrace not to have any stars
to reach. Not failure, but low aim, is the
real sin.
~ Benjamin Mays

11. To make a great dream come true, you
must first have a great dream.
~ Hans Selye

12. A goal is
a dream
with a deadline.
~ Napoleon Hill

13. Always bear in mind that
your own resolution to
succeed is more important
than any one thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

14. These are the times in which a genius would wish to live.
It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific
station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a
vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties.
Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is
raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart,
then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant,
wake into life and form the character of the hero and the
statesman.
Abigail Adams
October, 1779
in a letter to John Quincy Adams
as he departed Massachusetts for France
with his father John Adams, for the second time.

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