When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.

Great leaders must have two things: a vision of the world that does not yet exist and the ability to communicate that vision clearly.

Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves.

The goal is not simply to 'work hard, play hard.' The goal is to make our work and our play indistinguishab le.

The goal of life is not to have our lives mean something to ourselves. The goal of life is to have our lives mean something to others.

Progress and innovation happen when you set unrealistic goals.

If you can clearly articulate the dream or the goal, start.

What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.

Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey.

The goal of business should not be to do business with anyone who simply wants what you have. It should be to focus on the people who believe what you believe. When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.

The goal is not to do business with everybody who needs what you have. The goal is to do business with people who believe what you believe.

My entire life goal was to be accepted by everyone. I think that's what I wanted the most. I never got it.

Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing any other course of action. Living exclusively by genetic and social instructions is fine as long as everything goes well. But the moment bioloical or social goals are frustrated- which in the long run is inevitable - a person must formulate new goals, and create a new flow activity for himself, or else he will always waste his energies in inner turmoil.

There are two main strategies we can try to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

But to change all existence into a flow experience, it is not sufficient to learn merely how to control moment-by-moment states of consciousness. It is also necessary to have an overall context of goals for the events of everyday life to make senseTo create harmony in whatever one does is the last task that the flow theory presents to whose who wish to attain optimal experience; it is a task that involves transforming the entirety of life into a single flow activity, with unified goals that provide constant purpose.

To be overcome with the ultimate goal often interferes with performance.

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or instead of the goals others use to bribe us with, we develop a set of our own.

In large organizations the dilution of information as it passes up and down the hierarchy, and horizontally across departments, can undermine the effort to focus on common goals.

Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to.

Goals transform a random walk into a chase.

Problems are solved only when we devote a great deal of attention to them and in a creative way...to have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it. We also need a positive goal, otherwise why keep going? Creativity is one answer to that question - It provides one of the most exciting models for living.

Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.