Bob Greene Quotes

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

I'm always interested in challenging myself and pushing and seeing how far I can go.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

You have to be pretty driven to make it happen. Otherwise, you will just make yourself miserable.

At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting."

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

I made up my mind that I'd get out of that place and I didI learned that if you want to get somewhere, you just make up your mind and work like hell til you get there. If you want to go somewhere in life, you just have to work till you make it.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.

Everyone can perform magic, everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.

All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.

You've just got to focus on what you have to do.

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do.

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

Progress is mediation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.

A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

I try to practice with my life.

Make New Year's goals. Dig within, and discover what you would like to have happen in your life this year. This helps you do your part. It is an affirmation that you're interested in fully living life in the year to come.