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When I sit down to write, I don't have any real goals except to follow one good sentence with another... I'm not the kind of writer who has a map.

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

There are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.