John Templeton Quotes

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Knowing where you are going takes the uncertainty out of getting there

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.

You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.

Without vision, even the most focused passion is a battery without a device.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

You've got to have a vision. You've got to have a message.

I've always known where I wanted to go in life.

Focus your vision by giving it a goal.

If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.

If you know where you are going, you have this sixth sense about if everything you do along the way is lined up with that.

When you know what you want, you know where you want to go.

I'm very objective driven, so for me it's very important to know who I'm fighting, when I'm fighting, and roughly the direction I'm working in. It gives me that little extra push to do what I need to do to get the sessions, to work towards something.

The bigger the 'why' the easier the 'how'.

There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

We must be clear about where we’re going if we want anyone to help us get there.

It doesn't matter what you can do if you don't know why you're doing it.

An undefined goal is unreachable.