It’s 2014, a New Year: a fresh start or are you going to continue with what you were already doing? I always feel that a resolution can start any time you want, you don’t have to wait for the change of the year to get going on something new. But hey, since we are at the beginning of twenty fourteen right now anyway, let’s get it kick started with a couple of quotes to give you inspiration and motivation for this New Year.
Goals
“Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people’s criticisms, carry out your plan.” ~ Paul J. Meyer
“Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it’s who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest of most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.” ~ Anthony Robbins
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” ~ Zig Ziglar
Courage and perseverance
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ~ Winston Churchill
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve Jobs
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide
“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” ~ George Sheehan
“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
” Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” ~ Helen Keller
New Year
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ~ T.S. Eliot
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” ~ Tom Peters
“Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries. Today’s purposes can turn yesterday’s defeats into tomorrow’s determination.” ~ William Arthur Ward
“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” ~ Karen Ravn
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” ~ Anatole France
“Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” ~ Pamela Vaull Starr
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” ~ Diana Scharf Hunt
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“To dream anything that you want to dream. That’s the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” ~ Bernard Edmonds
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!” ~ Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Commit to make 2014 your best year yet, a year that will bring you closer to achieving your personal dreams and professional goals. Now is the time! Whatever your goals for this new year, press forward, stay positive and work hard. You can’t discover your potential if you don’t push yourself to succeed, learn, and achieve. Happy New Year!
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