Al McGuire Quotes

The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Without aspirations for a better existence, you're stuck in the mud and going nowhere.

Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.

You gotta have goals!

I had something to do, which most kids really need. Something they can look forward to - a goal, a purpose to work towards. Something to achieve. Keeps them out of trouble.

The thing about goals is that living without them is a lot more fun, in the short run. It seems to me, though, that the people who get things done, who lead, who grow and who make an impact . . . those people have goals.

I'm always thinking if I'm not doing something to get ahead in life, someone else is doing it.

It's never too late, for with a purpose, a worthy goal and a motivation to reach those upper layers on the pyramid, a person can travel further in a few years than he might otherwise travel in a lifetime.

Set your goal and keep moving forward.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Failure isn't in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.

Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.

Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

Dreams grow if you grow.

When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

I think you should never really feel like you've 'made it.'

In periods when everything was going really well I may have taken my foot off the pedal and got comfortable where I was at, not carrying on to the next level.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

I do have my targets in terms of what I need to improve on.