When you set your aim too high ...

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder.

When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness.

Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

That's the only way to get to the top.

-- Emil Zatopek (1922- 2000) Czech Middle Distance Runner

On planning

"People waste most of their waking hours every day going through the motions, chatting idly, shuffling paper, putting off decisions, reacting, majoring in minors and concentrating on trivia.

They spend their time in low priority tension relieving, rather than high priority goal-achieving activities."

-- Denis Waitley


"Planning is a real waste of time....for those who waste time."

-- Doug Firebaugh


"Every evening, write down the six most important things that you must do the next day.

Then while you sleep your subconscious will work on the best ways for you to accomplish them. Your next day will go much more smoothly."

-- Tom Hopkins


"Failing to plan means planning to fail. What are your goals?"

-- Brian Tracy

Aim

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.


-- Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474-1564)

See your goal clearly

Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead.

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 (1880-1966)