Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Whether it is a small thing or big one, step-by-step you can make things happen.

Start by thinking of the smallest possible action you could take; then, take it. Then, choose the next smallest action, and do that.

Ignore the scale, and make the process your goal.

Change is a process not an event.

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day.

Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad.

There is no such thing as a quantum leap. There is only dogged persistence - and in the end you make it look like a quantum leap.

I always set myself new goals. I always want to do better than I did in the past. I always want to achieve things I never achieved before.

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

I just do what Clint Eastwood does: Keep moving forward. You can't look back or think about that kind of stuff too much. You just keep making movies; hopefully you make some good ones.

I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

Small daily - seemingly insignificant - improvements and innovations lead to staggering achievements over time.

Don't mistake movement for achievement.

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

If you focus on goals, you may hit goals - but that doesn't guarantee growth. If you focus on growth, you will grow and always hit goals.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don’t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line.

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.

Every day gives you an opportunity to improve. With every run, you can try to be better. Not just a better runner, but a better person.

Success only breeds a new goal

Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.

See your life as a giant adventure. Keep pushing the envelope, and remember that every dream starts off small.