Archive for category: Goals

I believe in what I do, and I do what I believe in.

Peter E. Mück – German writer and graphic artist (b. 1946)

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

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

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

wisdom – Quotations book 2018

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

Johan Cruyff – Dutch football player and coach (1947-2016)

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Mark Zuckerberg – American company founder: facebook (b. 1984)

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

What is imaginable is also possible.

Ludwig Wittgenstein – Austro-British philosopher (1889-1951), from “Tractatus logico-philosophicus” (1912)

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)

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

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

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

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

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Joe Sabah – American motivational speaker (b. 1931)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Zig Ziglar – American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise men of old; seek what they sought.

Matsuo Basho – Japanese poet (1644-1694)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t dream your life, live your dream.

Lifeslogan – Quotations book 2011

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

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

Resolve and thou art free.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – American poet (1807-1882), from “The Masque of Pandora”, part VI “In the Garden” (1875)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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)

Risk = exposure to change

Alexander Ineichen – Swiss banker (*1967), from “Asymmetric Returns”

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident.

Thomas Alva Edison – American inventor (1847-1931)

Where there is no vision, the people perish.

The Bible, Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) – Quotations book 2007

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

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)

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)

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

Benjamin Franklin – American politician, writer and scientist (1706-1790)