Dee Hock Quotes

Ask yourself honestly, who do you wanna be and what are you willing to do to become that person?

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does.

I always look for... hopefully look for a challenge. And you're always looking for the next summit to hit. Even if it's a personal one. It needn't be some great sense of monumental... It just has to be important to you and big enough and special enough and individual enough that you get up for it. And that can be anything.

It's getting harder to make decisions to just want to do something to work... I'm trying to find things that are extremely challenging or mean something to me deeply.

In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.

I am trying to be guided by my passion.

Life motivates me.

I am strong minded, a believer that you can make things happen if you really want it that badly.

I'm a strong believer in the things that I want to do.

I focus my energy on what I believe in.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

The tragedy is that everyone thinks they already have goals. But what they really have are hopes and wishes.

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

No one but you can take your dreams away from you

Creating and integrating an empowering personal mission statement is one of the most important investments we can make.

To remain confident and positive, think about your goals all the time.

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you’ve been given.