"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score."
Bill Copeland (1946-2010) was an American poet, writer and historian.

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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.

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"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States. He is famous for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, and his "cowboy" image and robust masculinity.

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"If the plan doesn't work, change the plan but never the goal."
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"It seems to me that in an enterprise, if everybody concerned is absolutely clear about the goals and objectives and for purposes of the organization, practically all other questions then become simple technical questions of fitting means to the ends. But it is also true that to the extent that these far goals are confused as conflicting or ambivalent or only partially understood, then all the discussions of techniques and methods and means in the world will be of little use."
Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 – June 8, 1970) was a professor of psychology at Brandeis University who founded humanistic psychology and created Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

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"A bend in the road is not the end of the road. Unless you fail to make the turn."
Joan Lunden (born September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, author and television host. She was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America (GMA) from 1980 through 1997 and is the author of 8 books.

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"Before you begin a thing, remember yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't.
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 (born in Washington, D.C. on July 27, 1947) is a best-selling poet and essayist. She became known for her writings about Christian spirituality.

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"I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ((28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and polymath. Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, and science. His magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust.

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"The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it."
Mark R. Douglas (-)

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"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal."
E. Joseph Cossman (-) was an American salesperson largely known in the marketing circle for selling ant farms and shrunken heads through the direct door-to-door method. His name is also associated with entrepreneurship seminars organized during his lifetime. His destiny took a different shape when after leaving the Army in WW-II he changed a classified ad in a newspaper into a success story through entrepreneurship.

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