Inspirational Goal Quotes

[HotCajun]

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi

Failures do what is tension relieving,
while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley
(as quoted in Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog)

A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Samuel Butler

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy, Eat that Frog

The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Kahil Gibran

Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Aldous Huxley

If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

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

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
David Ogilvy

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith

[Shiny]

Ignore mirrors.  Perception is 9/10ths of the flaw
- Shiny, Friday the 13th, April 2007   

[herronm]

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford

[HotCajun]

You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Henry Ford

I know some politicians who should read that one!!!

[triumphcorvair]

I remember seeing these in USMC bootcamp

"Nobody ever drowned in sweat!"

"Can't means Won't!"

[Sooner Steve]

My favorite is:

Hard Work Beats Talent, When Talent Does Not Work Hard.

Or my 10 year old son's ---- Never pass up a chance to tinkle.   

[Robmeister]

Man, I missed this thread back when H.C. started it...

A belated thanks to H.C.!

I love inspirational quotes, man.

My favorite is still in WPruitt's profile:

"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

And then a simple, yet profound one is at the bottom of my profile:

"Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever......ever give up"  - Winston Churchill

[wpruitt]

Both damn good quotes.  My favorite from Churchill was when he addressed a joint session of congress .... "Has my father been American and my mother British, instead of the other way around, I would be here of my own accords".

[PBurke]

i got one for pig pen:


"COWBOY UP, YA PUSSY"

[guvnor_12]

How about the ever popular (and increasingly corny due to a film by the same name)
Bring it on.

[Marz]

To fall is not sin, the sin is to not get back up.
-Wayne Newton