Credo
I believe in what I do, and I do what I believe in.
Peter E. Mück – German writer and graphic artist (b. 1946)
Credo/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
I believe in what I do, and I do what I believe in.
Peter E. Mück – German writer and graphic artist (b. 1946)
Target/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
One of the most pleasant experiences in our life is to serve as a target, but without being hit.
proverb, often attributed to Sir Winston L. Churchill – British politician, 1940-45 and 1951-55 Prime Minister, Nobel Prize in literature 1953 (1874-1965), Quotations book 2018
Från det gamla till det som kommer/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
To move from the old to what is about to come is the only tradition worth keeping.
Marcus “Dodde” Wallenberg – Swedish banker: SEB-Bank (1899-1982), in a letter to his brother Jacob (1946), Quotations book 2018
Att skifta från det gamla till det som kommer är den enda tradition värd att vårda.
Marcus “Dodde” Wallenberg – svensk bankman: Stockholms Enskilda Bank (1899-1982), i ett brev till sin bror Jacob (1946), Citatbok 2018
Want or excuse/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
If you really want something you will find a way.
If you don’t you will find an excuse.
Arabic proverb – Quotations book 2018
Grow/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
As long as you’re green you’re growing, as soon as you’re ripe you start to rot.
Raymond Albert “Ray” Kroc – American company founder, who was brave enough to switch from a milk shake-machine-agent to a fast food-entreprenaur at the age of 52: McDonald’s Corp. (1902-1984), from “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s” (1977), Quotations book 2018
Act intelligent/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Our job is to find a few intelligent things to do, not to keep up with every damn thing in the world.
Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1924), Quotations book 2018
Measuring public opinions/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
The most reliable indication of public purpose in this country is derived through our popular elections.
Abraham Lincoln – American politician, 1861-65 16th president (1809-1865), abolished slavery in 1863, from his annual Message to Congress, 6 December 1864
Integrity/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
When you fine-tune your integrity, there is an exceptional reward.
Prof. Dr. Srinivasan Pillay – South African-born American psychiatrist
Imagination/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
wisdom – Quotations book 2018
Come further/in All Quotes, Business, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
What got me here won’t get me where I want to go.
motivation from business
Goals and dreams/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
wisdom
Peace/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Only when you have made peace within yourself will you be able to make peace in the world.
Simcha Bunim Bonhart of Peshischa – Polish Hassidic rabbi (1765-1827), Quotations book 2018
What it takes to be Number One/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all the time thing. You don’t win once in a while; you don’t do things right once in a while; you do them right all of the time. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game, and that’s first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay, and I don’t ever want to finish second again. There is a second place bowl game, but it is a game for losers played by losers. It is and always has been an American zeal to be first in anything we do, and to win, and to win, and to win.
Every time a football player goes to ply his trade he’s got to play from the ground up – from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play. Some guys play with their heads. That’s O.K. You’ve got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you’ve got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you’re lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he’s never going to come off the field second.
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization – an army, a political party or a business. The principles are the same. The object is to win – to beat the other guy. Maybe that sounds hard or cruel. I don’t think it is.
It is a reality of life that men are competitive and the most competitive games draw the most competitive men. That’s why they are there – to compete. The object is to win fairly, squarely, by the rules – but to win.
And in truth, I’ve never known a man worth his salt who in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn’t appreciate the grind, the discipline. There is something in good men that really yearns for discipline and the harsh reality of head to head combat.
I don’t say these things because I believe in the ‘brute’ nature of men or that men must be brutalized to be combative. I believe in God, and I believe in human decency. But I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour – his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear – is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – VICTORIOUS.
Vince Lombardi – legendary American football coach (1913-1970), Quotations book 2018
Limits of the possible/in All Quotes, Goals, Success /by Christoph Niemann
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke – American writer and inverntor (1917-2008), from his essay “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination” in “Profiles of the Future” (1962), Quotations book 2018
Goal/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
When we find a purpose that is bigger than ourselves, we become more powerful in our ability to create.
Jack Delosa – Australian author and investor, founder and CEO of The Entourage (b. 1987), Quotations book 2018
Difficult/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.
attributed to Pelé – born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Brazilian football player (b. 1940), Quotations book 2018
Giving back/in Achievement, All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein – German physicist, Nobel prize in Physics 1921 (1879-1955), from his essay “The Worls As I See It”, published in “Forum and Century” N° 84 (1931)
Longing as motivation/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to gather wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – French writer and aviator (1900-1944), following an excerpt of chapter 75 from “Citadelle” (1948), Quotations book 2018
Progress starts in Little steps/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
All mankind’s progress has been achieved as a result of the initiative of a small minority that began to deviate from the ideas and customs of the majority until their example finally moved the others to accept the innovation themselves.
Ludwig von Mises – Austrian economist (1881-1973), in “Liberalism: In the Classical Tradition” (1927), Quotations book 2017
Hope/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
Dr. h. c. Václav Havel – Czech writer and politician, 1993-2003 president of the Czech Republik (1936-2011), from “Disturbing the peace: a conversation with Karel Hvížďala”, Chapter 5 (1986), Quotations book 2017
Naděje není to přesvědčení, že něco dobře dopadne, ale jistota, že má něco smysl – bez ohledu na to, jak to dopadne.
Dr. h.c. Václav Havel – český a později politik, 1993-2003 prezidentem České republiky (1936-2011), “Dálkový výslech. Rozhovor s Karlem Hvížd’alou” (1986), Citace knihy 2017
Get further/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
You can’t get very far until you start doing something for somebody else.
Melvin Jones – American business leader, founder of Lions Club International (1879-1961), Quotations book 2017
Foresight/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the Ark.
proverbial saying – Quotations book 2017
Are you in the right game?/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
If no mistake have you made, yet losing you are … a different game you should play.
Wisdom from Jedi Master Yoda – character from the book and film series “Star Wars”, from the novel “Shatterpoint” (2004), Quotations book 2017
Risk/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare – English writer (1564-1616), from “Measure for Measure”, act 1, scene 4 (1604)
Getting forward/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
The secret of getting forward is to make the first step.
Proverb, often attributed to Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer (1835-1910), Quotations book 2017
Take a position/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Cowardice asks the question: “Is it safe?”
Expediency asks the question: “Is it politic?”
Vanity asks the question: “Is it popular?”
But conscience asks the question: “Is it right?”
And there comes a time, when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
Martin Luther King jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), from his speech “A Proper Sense of Priorities”, held in Washington on February 6th, 1968, Quotations book 2017
Courage/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), in his essay “The Strength to Love” (1963)
John Wooden’s “Seven Point Creed”/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
1. Be true to yourself.
2. Make each day your masterpiece.
3. Help others.
4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
5. Make friendship a fine art.
6. Build a shelter against a rainy day.
7. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
John Hugh Wooden – American farmer (1882-1950), father of the legendary basketball player and coach John Wooden (1910-2010), whom he gave these lines upon graduation from grammar school, which Wooden kept in his wallet a life Long, Quotations book 2017
Idealism/in All Quotes, Business, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
There is indeed little merit in being idealistic if the provision of the material means required for these idealistic aims is left to somebody else. It is only where a person can himself choose to make a material sacrifice for a nonmaterial end that he deserves credit.
Friedrich August von Hayek – Austrian economist and social philosopher, Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences 1974 (1899-1992), from “The moral Element in Free Enterprise” (1962)
Ask good/in All Quotes, Goals, Knowledge /by Christoph Niemann
The better the question. The better the answer. The better the world works.
Slogan by Ernst & Young, business consulting company
Patience/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.
Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930)
Foresight/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky – Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1961), Quotations book 2016
Understand/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.
Johan Cruyff – Dutch football player and coach (1947-2016)
Be yourself/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
’Become free to be yourself’. Trying to copy others won’t help who you were meant to be. What’s wrong with being that genuine and capable person you really are? Everybody has something unique to contribute. Celebrate yourself and what you have to offer.
Dr. Howard Murad – American physician, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine, founder of Murad Skincare and the worldwide Inclusive Health’ movement (b. 1939)
Risk/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
Mark Zuckerberg – American company founder: facebook (b. 1984)
Prioriteis/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
παρὰ τούτοις εἶναι μᾶλλον πρῶτος ἢ παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις δεύτερος.
Mallem hic primus esse quam Romae secundus.
I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.
Plutarch – Greek writer (c. 45-125), in “Life of Caesar” (c. 96), Quotations book 2016
Priorities/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “yes”.
“Now,” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things: your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions. If everything else was lost and only the golf balls remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car. The sand is everything else – the small stuff.”
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life.
If you spend your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Play with your children. Take time to get a medical checkup. Take your spouse out to dinner. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.”
symbolic story – Quotations book 2016
Perfection/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi – legendary American football coach (1913-1970), Quotations book 2016
Possibilities/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
What is imaginable is also possible.
Ludwig Wittgenstein – Austro-British philosopher (1889-1951), from “Tractatus logico-philosophicus” (1912)
Moderately forward/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Who drives the horse needlessly, must walk at the end.
Kazakh proverb
Life/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
The important thing is not how many years in your life but how much life in your years.
Dr. Edward J. Stieglitz – American gerontologist and author (1899-1958), from “The Second Forty Years” (1947)
Get ahead/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Step by step you get ahead but not necessarily in fast spurts.
Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1924)
Egna vägar/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Man kommer aldrig först om man går i andras fotspår.
Swedish proverb – published in a collection by Gunnel (b. 1941) and Kjell Swärd (b. 1937), Quotations book 2015
Progress/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee.
Ludwig von Mises – Austrian economist (1881-1973), from “Bureaucracy” (1944), Quotations book 2015
Greatness/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
It’s not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
Edward G. Gardner – Amercian company founder: Soft Sheen Products Inc. (b. 1925), Quotations book 2015
Dreams/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney – American cartoonist and film producer (1901-1966), Quotations book 2015
Strenght/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi – Indian politician (1869-1948), in “Young India” from August 11th, 1920, Quotations book 2013 and 2015
Relâcher/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
André Gide – écrivain français, prix Nobel de littérature 1947 (1869-1951), de “Les Faux-Monnayeurs” (1925), Brochure de citation 2014
Perspective/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Car il suffit pour y voir clair de changer de perspective.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – écrivain, et aviateur français (1900-1944), de “La Citaelle” (1948), Brochure de citation 2014
Hold on/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.
Charles Franklin Kettering – American inventor and head of research at General Motors (1876-1958), Quotations book 2007 und 2014
Great/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah – American motivational speaker (b. 1931)
New paths/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
It is better to stumble on new paths than to make no headway on the old tracks.
Jochen Mariss – German author, photographer and designer (b. 1955)
Leaving trails/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.
Muriel Strode – American poet (1875-1964), from “My Little Book of Prayer” (1904)
Luck/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Golf is a game of luck. The more I practice, the luckier I get.
Proverb in golfing
Courage/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day that says: I’ll try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher – American writer, artist and speaker (b. 1957)
Survival/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin – Britisch scientist (1809-1882), Quotations book 2016
High Goals/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
University am 12. September 1962 We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.
John F. Kennedy – American politician, 1961-63 35th president (1917-1963), in his peech at Rice University on September 12th, 1962
Getting better/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
When you stop getting better, you stop being good.
Franz Türk – Austrian cellarer, vineyard owner and entrepreneur (b. 1970), Quotations book 2016
Personal leadership/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Personal Leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
Dr. Stephen R. Covey – American author and management consultant (1932-2012)
Perseguir los sueños/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
No es verdad que las personas dejan de perseguir sus sueños porque envejecen, envejecen porque dejan de perseguir sus sueños.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García Márquez – Columbian writer, Nobel prize in literature 1982 (1927-2014)
Fly/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
When you are born with wings, you should do anything you can and use them to fly.
attributed to Florence Nightingale- English nurse, founder of modern nursing (1820-1910), Quotations book 2016
Sow and reap/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Whatever one sows, that will he also reap.
The Bible, Galatians 6:7 (ESV) – Quotations book 2016
Hatch or go bad/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963), from “Mere Christianity” (1952), Quotations book 2016
Yardstick/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard. I always pose it this way, I say: “Lookit. Would you rather be the world’s greatest lover, but have everyone think you’re the world’s worst lover? Or would you rather be the world’s worst lover but have everyone think you’re the world’s greatest lover?”
Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), from “Warren Buffett’s Management Secrets” (2009), Quotations book 2015
Front page test/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
When you get out of bed in the morning and think about what you want to do that day, ask yourself whether you’d like others to read about it on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper.
You’ll probably do things a little differently if you keep that in mind.
Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), Quotations book 2015
Product perception/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
Charles Haskell Revson – American entrepreneur, founder of Revlon (1906-1975), Quotations book 2014
Motivation/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
People often say motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012), Quotations book 2014
Direction/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012), Quotations book 2014
Goalsetting/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)
Character, commitment, discipline/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)
Seeking/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men of old; seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho – Japanese poet (1644-1694)
Masterpiece/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
You can either follow a paint-by-numbers-kit approach to life and stay within the accepted lines or you can decide you want to create a masterpiece.
James C. “Jim” Collins – American business consultant, author and academic (b. 1958)
Age/in All Quotes, Goals, Time /by sysadmin
Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.
attributed to Ingmar Bergman – Swedish scriptwriter, film and stage director (1918-2007), Quotations book 2013
Union in times of peace/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
This time the men of western Europe have not lacked courage and have not acted too late. They have done something great and what is remarkable and perhaps unique is that they have done it by renouncing means of force, any constraint, any threat.
Paul-Henry Spaak – Belgian politician, 1956-61 Nato General Secretary (1899-1972), on Occasion of the signing of the Roman Treaties 1957, seen on a bust of Paul-Henry Spaak in front of Brussel’s Central Station , Quotations book 2013
Best wishes/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
May you have enough happiness to make you sweet,
enough trials to make you strong,
enough sorrow to keep you human,
enough hope to make you happy.
Wish, Quotations book 2013
Hope/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde – Irish writer (1854-1900), from “Lady Windermere’s Fan: A Play About a Good Woman” (1892)
Watchword 2013/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
The Bible, Hebrew 13:14 (NRSV) – Quotations book 2013
Altruism/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
If you can’t feed 100 people, then feed just one.
Wisdom, often attributed to Mother Teresa – born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Albanian-born Indian nun and order’s founder, Nobel Peace Prize (1910-1997), could not be verified by the Mother Teresa Center, Quotations book 2013
Dream or Goal?/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Harvey Mackay – American entrepreneur and author of the 2005 New York Times’ N° 1 bestseller “Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive” (b. 1932), Quotations book 2013
Change/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
Sir Winston L. Churchill – British politician, 1940-45 and 1951-55 Prime Minister, Nobel Prize in literature 1953 (1874-1965), in a congress speech fom january 17th, 1952, Quotations book 2013
Legacy/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
I won’t have any money to leave behind. I won’t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind…
If I can help somebody as I pass along,
if I can cheer somebody with a word or song,
if I can show somebody he’s travelling wrong,
then my life will not be in vain.If I can do my duty as a Christian ought,
if I can bring salvation to a world once wrought,
if I can spread the message as the master taught,
then my life will not be in vain.
Martin Luther King jr. – American civil rights activist and pastor, Nobel Peace Prize 1964 (1929-1968), from his sermon “The Drum Major Instinct” from Februaty 4th, 1968, Quotations book 2012
Setback/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
A setback is a setup for a comeback.
Dr. Robert H. Schuller – American evangelist and reformed priest (1926-2015), Quotations book 2012
Perfection/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n´y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n´y a plus rien à retrancher.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – écrivain, et aviateur français (1900-1944), de “Terre des Hommes” (1939), Brochure de citation 2012
Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – French writer and aviator (1900-1944), from “Terre des Hommes” (1939), Quotations book 2012
Development potential/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments.
Julius Sextus Frontinus – Roman engineer, in 10 A.D., Quotations book 2012
Perseverance/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.
Samuel Johnson – English writer (1709-1784), from “The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abessinia” (1759), Quotations book 2012
Change/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Who really wants to change something must show respect – but nevertheless be disrespectful.
James Watson and Francis Crick – American (Watson, b. 1928) and British (Crick, 1916-2004) molecular biologist, discoverers of the DNA structure, Nobel Prize in medicine 1962, Quotations book 2011
Live your dream/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Don’t dream your life, live your dream.
Lifeslogan – Quotations book 2011
Aim high/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
Gentlemen, make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood … Make big plans … aim high in hope and work.
Daniel H. Burnham – American urban designer for Chicago (1846-1912), Quotations book 2011
Act and dream/in All Quotes, Goals /by sysadmin
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
Pour accomplir des grandes choses il ne suffit pas d’agir il faut rêver..
Anatole France – born Jacques Anatole François Thibault, French poet, Nobel Prize in literature 1921 (1844-1924), in his inaugural speech at the Académie Française on December 24th, 1896
Experience/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.
The Bible, Jeremiah 6,16 (NIV) – Quotations book 2010
Live simply/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess.
Dr. John W. Stott – British pastor and author (1921-2011), Quotations book 2010
Live/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Live your life, as if you are gonna die.
attributed to William Shatner – Canadian actor (b. 1931)
Resolve/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Resolve and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – American poet (1807-1882), from “The Masque of Pandora”, part VI “In the Garden” (1875)
Obstacles/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
attributed to Henry Ford – American engineer and industrialist (1863-1947)
Aims/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
attributed to Michelangelo – born Michelangiolo Buonarroti Simoni, Italian skulptor, painter, architect and poet (1475-1564)
Dreams/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau – American writer (1817-1862), from “Walden” (1854)
Entrepreneurs/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Entrepreneurs recognize and pursue opportunity without regard to the resources they currently control. They find creative ways to acquire the resources to achieve their goals.
Robert Reiss – American radio host, founder of the “The CEO-Show” (b. 1961)
Goals/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.
attributed to Anthony Robbins – American author and motivational speaker (*1960)
Meaning of Life/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
attributed to D. Elton Trueblood – American author, philosopher and theologian (1900-1994)
Secret of success/in All Quotes, Goals, Success /by Christoph Niemann
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli – English writer and politician, 1868 and 1874-80 Prime Minister (1804-1881), in a banquet speech of the National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations on June 24th, 1872
Dream/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
You see things as they are and ask “Why?”
I dream things as they never where and ask “Why not?”
George Bernard Shaw – Irish writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1925 (1856-1950), from “Back to Methuselah” (1921)
Donors motivation/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
It gives me a good feeling.
Walter Annenberg – American philanthropist, who donated paintings worth 1 Billion $ to the New York Metropolitan Museum on his motivation (1908-2002), Quotations book 2004
Priorities/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman of the next generation.
attributed to James Freeman Clarke – American preacher and author (1810-1888), Quotations book 2009
Charity work/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Doing charity work is the opposite of investing – we look for the most difficult problem to solve and the ones that have the lowest possibility of success.
Wisdom- Quotations book 2008
Advertising/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men – the man he is and the man he wants to be.
attributed to William Feather – American author and publisher (1889-1981), Quotations book 2008
Change the world/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.® Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has..
Margaret Mead – American anthropologist and ethnologian (1901-1978), Courtesy of The Institute for Intercultural Studies, Inc., New York, Quotations book 2008
Small people/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
attributed to Mark Twain – born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer, (1835-1910), Quotations book 2008
Freedom/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
Man does not want liberty in order to maximize his utility, or that of the society of which he is a part. He wants liberty to become the man he wants to become.
James M. Buchanan – American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in economic sciences 1986 (1919-2013), Quotations book 2008
Circumstances/in All Quotes, Goals /by Christoph Niemann
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw – Irish writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1925 (1856-1950), from “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” (1902), Quotations book 2008
Plan/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Plan so big that you need God to fulfill your plan.
Dr. William Rohl “Bill” Bright – American evangelist, founder of the Campus Crusade for Christ International (1921-2003), Quotations book 2008
Mission/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Every mission risks losing its identity as a mission if it eliminates suffering servanthood in exchange for personal ease on a par with the world’s standards.
Stephen E. Freed – International Director of International Teams (www.iteams.org)
Better/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
There’s a way to do it better – find it!
Thomas Alva Edison – American inventor (1847-1931), Quotations book 2008
Miracles/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
often falsely attributed to Albert Einstein
Own instinct/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Follow your own instincts, not those of people who see the world differently.
Sumner Murray Redstone – born Sumner M. Rothstein, American media magnate (CBS, Viacom, b. 1923)
Wilberforce and manners/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
The almighty LORD set two targets for me: the abolishment of slavery and the reformation of manners.
William Wilberforce – British parliamentarian and philanthropist, who had a relevant contribution to the abolishment of slavery (1759-1833)
Success/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Kenyan proverb – Quotations book 2005
Risk/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Risk = exposure to change
Alexander Ineichen – Swiss banker (*1967), from “Asymmetric Returns”
Children/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Children’s games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de Montaigne – French writer and philosopher (1533-1592)
Objectives/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident.
Thomas Alva Edison – American inventor (1847-1931)
Plans/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Plans are often worthless, yet the planning process is priceless.
Dwight David Eisenhower – American general and politician, 1953-61 34th president (1890-1969)
Vision/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The Bible, Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) – Quotations book 2007
Retirement/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
He who thinks that he has finished is finished. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way.
Henri J.M. Nouwen – Dutch theologian and psychologist (1932-1996), Quotations book 2007
Dreams/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
What dreams would you have if you knew you could not fail?
Inscription at the Crystal Cathedral’s Welcoming Center in Garden Grove, California – Quotations book 2007
Retrospective/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises, being known and being praised, ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money … going to and fro in the world and up and down it like Satan. … In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.” They are diversions designed to distract our attention from the true purpose of our existence in this world, which is, quite simply, to look for God, and, in looking, to find him, and having found him, to love him, thereby establishing a harmonious relationship with his purposes for his creation..
Malcolm Muggeridge – English writer (1903-1990)
Aims/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone. … The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgement.
Prof. Dr. William Edwards Deming – founder of Total-Quality-Management TQM (1900-1993)
Have everything/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?
Steven Wright – American Comedian and actor (*1955), Quotations book 2007
The proper ambition/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
The Reverend Fred Craddock, a remarkable preacher from Georgia, may have been imagining things –the way preachers are wont to do – but he says this story really happened.
Dr. Craddock was visiting in the home of his niece. There was this old greyhound dog there, just like the ones who race around a track chasing those mechanical rabbits. His niece had taken the dog in to prevent it from being destroyed because its racing days were over.
Dr. Craddock strikes up a conversation with the dog: “I said to the dog, are you still racing?” “No,” he replied. “Well, what was the matter? Did you get too old to race?” “No, I still had some race in me.” “Well, what then? Did you not win?” “I won over a million dollars for my owner.”
“Well, what was it? Bad treatment?” “Oh, no,” the dog said, “They treated us royally when we were racing.” “Did you get crippled?” “No.” “Then why?” Craddock pressed, “Why?” The dog answered, “I quit.” “You quit?” “Yes,” he said, “I quit.”
“Why did you quit?” “I just quit. Because after all that running and running and running, I found out that the rabbit I was chasing wasn’t even real.”
On this day of celebration, achievement, and the commencement of a new phase in your lives, it takes considerable temerity for me to challenge you to consider what kind of rabbit you’ll choose to chase during your careers. I do so only because – this may surprise you – I challenge myself as to whether the rabbit I’ve been chasing all these long years is real.
John C. Bogle – American investment expert and author (b. 1929)
Aim high/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Aim at Heaven and you will get ‚earth thrown in’. Aim at earth and you will get neither.
C. S. Lewis – British writer (1898-1963), Quotations book 2006
Failing/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Benjamin Franklin – American politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790)
Risk/in All Quotes, Goals /by Tanja Titz
A ship in the harbour is safe… But that’s not what the ships were made for.
Wisdom – Quotations book 2002
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