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Quotable Quotes: Achieving Goals

This document contains quotes related to achieving goals, matching talents to careers, non-violence and school violence, and committed/ethical leadership. Some key quotes include Paulo Coelho's statement about concentrating on clear goals, Confucius adjusting action steps when goals cannot be reached, and Gandhi emphasizing non-violence as the greatest force. Overall, the quotes provide advice and perspectives on focusing efforts, following talents, resolving issues non-violently, and leading with commitment, vision and service.

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Quotable Quotes: Achieving Goals

This document contains quotes related to achieving goals, matching talents to careers, non-violence and school violence, and committed/ethical leadership. Some key quotes include Paulo Coelho's statement about concentrating on clear goals, Confucius adjusting action steps when goals cannot be reached, and Gandhi emphasizing non-violence as the greatest force. Overall, the quotes provide advice and perspectives on focusing efforts, following talents, resolving issues non-violently, and leading with commitment, vision and service.

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QUOTABLE QUOTES

ACHIEVING GOALS
1. Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate
and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target
with their eyes closed. Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym"
2. When it obvious that the goals cannot be reached, dont adjust the goals. Adjust
the action steps. Confucius

3. A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Abraham Lincoln


4. Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. - Helmut
Schmidt
5. "Anyone will succeed in whatever field of endeavor in life by acquiring the same
virtues and character that boxing world champions do -- dedication,
perseverance, courage, extreme self-discipline and prayers - Manny Pacquiao
6. Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt
7. To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not,
pretend you are. Muhammad Ali
8. "An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his
heart and dreams in his head." Emil Zatopek (Czechoslovakian runner and
winner of four Olympic gold medals)

9. I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always
reach my destination. Jimmy Dean
10. There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live
as if everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

11. If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind
before you actually arrive at your goal. Zig Ziglar

12. Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. - Benjamin
Franklin

13. Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte


14. You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog
that barks. Winston Churchill

15. Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work
with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be
found as you go along - Napoleon Hill
MATCHING TALENTS TO FUTURE CAREER
1. Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. I told her once I wasnt good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.
Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

3. Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from
the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

4. Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a
certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop
it.
Pope John Paul II

5. If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't
dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly, like a millionaire intent on going broke.
- Brenda Francis
6. Everybody has talent; it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered
what it is.
- George Lucas
7. All of us do not have equal talents. Yet, all of us have an equal opportunity to
develop our talents.
- Ratan Tata
8. A career is born in public - talent in privacy. Manilyn Monroe
9. Talent is never static. It's always growing or dying.
- Stephen King
10. Talent alone doesn't get you anywhere, you have to work at achieving your
goals using your talent that's the key of success.
- Unknown
11. I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.
- Maya Angelou
12. There are many talented people who havent fulfilled their dreams because they
over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap
of faith.
- James Cameron
13. Everyone has talent. Whats rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places
where it leads.
- Erica Jong
14. Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.
-Jennifer Hudson,

15. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson
NO TO SCHOOL VIOLENCE
1. Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than
the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mahatma Gandhi

2. Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
- Mahatma Gandhi

3. An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
4. Mahatma Gandhi

5. You will never reach higher ground if you are always pushing others down.
Jeffrey Benjamin

6. Like all bullies, theyre cowards underneath the swagger Robert Pattinson

7. Your words have power. Use them wisely.


- Anonymous

8. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Plato

9. Be careful how you judge people, you dont sum up a mans life in one
moment. Anonymous

10. Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten
years later, the wounds are still there. Joel Osteen

11. Bullying is for immature people who cant be kind to one another.
- Anonymous

12. Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
- Annie Besant

COMMITED LEADERSHIP/ ETHICAL LEADERSHIP


1. Encourage your people to be committed to a project rather than just be
involved in it.
-Richard Pratt
2. People do not follow uncommitted leaders. Commitment can be displayed in a
full range of matters to include the work hours you choose to maintain, how you
work to improve your abilities, or what you do for your fellow workers at
personal sacrifice.
- Stephen Gregg
3. "A great leader doesnt care about being the leader, but instead cares about the
mission, the vision and the people they are leading."- Scott Williams
4. "Leadership is more than telling people what to do. Leadership is having a vision
and asking people to join you. Leadership is then having them believe it was
their vision all along." Unknown
5. "Leadership is not about changing the mindset of the group, but in the
cultivation of an environment that brings out the best and inspires the individuals
in that group. - Arthur F. Carmazzi
6. Good leaders must first become good servants. - Robert Greenleaf
7. "To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not
notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the
people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is
done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!'" Lao Tzu
8. "A leader is a dealer in hope." Napoleon Bonaparte
9. "If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall in the ditch." Jesus Christ

10. "Be a leader who is well respected rather than a leader who is well liked because
well respected leaders will do the right things for the people, and people, the
people will love you for the things that you do for them."
11. To lead the people, walk behind them. -Lao-Tzu
12. Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says Go! a
leader says Lets go! -E.M. Kelly
13. If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you -Mahatma
Gandhi
14. A great leaders courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. John Maxwell
15. A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame
and a little less than his share of the credit. -John C. Maxwell

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