Goals

Chance favors the prepared mind. ~Louis Pasteur

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~Sir Edmund Hilary

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. ~Earl Nightingale

I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything.. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything. ~Dan Millman

Action

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. ~Robert Heinlein

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen. ~Lee Iacocca

We are judged by what we finish, not what we start. ~Anonymous

Patience is also a form of action. ~Auguste Rodin

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. ~St. Francis of Assisi

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson Sr

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther. ~J.P. Morgan

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is — and rise above it. ~Michael Korda

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ...You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands, and hopes we've learned something from yesterday. ~John Wayne

Ideas

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. ~Pablo Picasso

Ideas are like wandering sons. They show up when you least expect them. ~Bern Williams

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. ~Annie Gottlier

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy to be called an idea at all. ~Elbert Hubbard

Labor gives birth to ideas. ~Jim Rohn

If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. ~Albert Einstein

Drawing is putting a line round an idea. ~Henri Matisse

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. ~Emile Chartier

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. ~Jim Rohn

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds. ~Will Durant

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ~Sidney Howard

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie the Pooh

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. ~John F. Kennedy

If there were only one truth, you couldn’t paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. ~Pablo Picasso


When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. ~George Bernard Shaw

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~Albert Einstein

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair. ~General Douglas McArthur

Spirit Horses

Horses lend us the wings we lack. ~Author Unknown

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ~Pam Brown


The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. ~Sharon Ralls Lemon

A lovely horse is always an experience. ... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. ~Beryl Markham

• Spirit Horses by Ruella Yates

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ~Theodore Roosevelt