When the chimes begin to strike, millions of people urgently make wishes. During this time, some even manage to write a wish on a piece of paper, burn it and pour the ashes into a glass of champagne to make sure it comes true. But for some reason it still doesn’t come true. What are they doing wrong?
They forget about several important points:
- A dream must become a clear goal.
- The path to the goal must be carefully planned, specifying specific tasks in the plan. (No, you won’t have time to do this during the chiming clock, you need to start early. And the leaf should be in front of your eyes, and not in your stomach.)
- To achieve your goal and make your dream come true, the assigned tasks must be consistently completed. (No, baby, Santa Claus will not work for you.)
It seems that everything is clear, Captain Obvious can be free? Oh, if only! For many people, problems begin already at the stage of transforming a dream into a goal. Not everyone understands the difference between them. What is the difference between a goal and a task? Wow, this is actually a question for professors!
Let's figure out what the difference is between dreams, goals, and tasks. Not for fun, but for benefit: so that in the New Year the wish made on the festive midnight will definitely come true!
About dreams
Translated from English, “dream” is a dream, illusion and vision. Based on this, it is clear that a dream is closely connected with our inner emotional world. Our inner voice tells us about the secret thing we really want.
A dreamer is like an idealist. He completely shifts obligations from himself to numerous external factors in the future, expecting a miracle. Such a person is characterized by passivity and waiting - he makes no attempts to get closer to the fulfillment of his dreams and simply remains inactive, and his thoughts are characterized by formlessness and blurriness.
But wait to be disappointed in your fantasies. After all, dreams are one of the most effective ways to motivate yourself to do better things! Dreams inspire, don't they?
Let our desires go crazy with our possibilities
Beautiful statuses about dreams and desires
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Dream...Fly...And think about beautiful things. In a dream, touch the stars and clouds. And believe that it is not in vain. That everything in our life will be easy. Palchik Olga
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Dreams come true when a strong desire turns them into concrete actions Napoleon Hill
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First we become slaves of our desires, and then slaves of those on whom the fulfillment of these desires depends.
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Be careful with your wishes - they tend to come true. Michael Bulgakov
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Learn to dream in the midst of the bustle, in the midst of gray everyday life and problems, and see the highlights of beauty in the alluring wind of change...
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How I would like to become DIFFERENT How I would like to CHANGE and not live just one DREAM That someday EVERYTHING will happen. Yulia Iskakova
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If you shed the web of prejudice and limitations, truly believe that you are worthy of your dreams, and allow yourself to have what you want, you will get it. Allowing yourself to have is the main condition for fulfilling your desire! Vadim Zeland “Reality Transurfing”
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Lay out your desires before God and say, “Thy will be done.” There is nothing better than letting God make the choice!
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Do you know what is important to take from childhood into adulthood? - A dream. Elchin Safarli
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I want to live in the city of love, on the street of harmony and with the windows facing the avenue of dreams...
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Do you think dreams are just dreams? You are wrong. The brighter the dream, the closer it is to reality.
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How wonderful it is to dream about what is dear to you, these thoughts warm you and make your soul warmer.
If you want to dream, then without denying yourself anything...
What is a goal
A goal, as opposed to a dream, is something concrete, for the sake of which plans are made and specific steps and deadlines for their implementation are developed. You must understand that the goal is always achievable. To do this, a person must constantly ask himself: “How can I achieve this,” and write down the steps to move towards what is planned.
Every person on earth has goals. They can be short-term and simple, for example, doing household chores, learning a poem, or long-term and ambitious: saving for a car, taking a management position, starting a family, etc.
There is also a purpose in life - something for which life takes on meaning, for which it is worth getting up in the morning. As in the case of small goals and large ones, success in achieving them depends on how correctly they were set.
Set meaningful goals and dream big
I always try to have a goal in life and dream big. Now I have set a goal, in addition to creating a happy family, to write 10 fiction books. And although I am still at the beginning of my journey, I am truly inspired by my plans. In addition, I love sharing my experience and knowledge. This is a passion that has always been in me. It connects me with a wider range of people.
My work gives me the opportunity to express my thoughts, opinions, and be creative. Every step I take towards achieving my goal makes me feel like I'm on the right path. In the end, we all want to leave some kind of mark behind us. And I think the worst feeling I can have at the end of my life is realizing that I didn't try hard enough. And she was unable to fully use her potential and did not realize herself.
Instructions on how to turn a dream into a goal
As you already understand, a dream is the basis of every goal. Sometimes people don’t even think about how, without much effort, you can turn your dream into reality and start dreaming about something more. There is an easy way to turn a dream into a goal: give your dreams an outline, specify them, make them more real and concrete.
There is also a special goal setting method - SMART, which helps both ordinary people and multimillion-dollar companies develop goals. According to this methodology, when planning goals, the following characteristics must be taken into account:
- S (specific) - specificity: you must be aware of the clear result of your goal. One goal – one result. If it turns out that when setting a goal, several results are obtained, the goal can be split into several smaller goals.
- M (measurable) – measurability: you can use numbers (statistics) or your specially developed criteria, with the help of which you could understand that the goal has been achieved.
- A (attainable) – achievability: if the goal is unattainable, then the probability of its achievement is reduced to zero. Don't set the bar too high. You may be limited in time, resources, investments, experience - all of this will prevent you from successfully achieving your goals. Set goals based on your strengths, clearly understanding which ways will really help you get closer to what you want.
- R (relevant) - relevance: look inside yourself and understand whether you need this goal at all, will achieving this goal bring any value to you when you achieve it?
- T (timebound) - time limitation: set a deadline, exceeding which will indicate failure to achieve the goal. Limitations and clear deadlines stimulate us, keep us on our toes and do not allow us to relax, otherwise goals would forever remain our dreams.
How to build castles in the air correctly
In an article about the psychology of wealth, I wrote about how important it is to learn to dream and desire.
- Eva! - the reader will exclaim. - Yes, anyone can dream!
That's right. The thing is that people dream differently. For some, a beautiful picture in their head is enough to get emotional satisfaction. This is escapism - an escape from reality.
For others, the positive that comes from mentally constructing images of what they want is not enough. They want to get in reality what they dream about. For these people, “dreams are not an escape from reality, but a means of getting closer to it,” as the English writer William Somerset Maugham wrote.
It should be noted that from time to time escapist dreams visit each of us. Films and books stimulate the imagination. You read something interesting and imagine yourself as an orc conqueror surrounded by beautiful elves... It is impossible to completely get rid of such a “movie in your head”, and there is no need to do this. Another thing is important: does your whole life consist of such a “cinematograph” or do you have much more realistic dreams?
— What if I watched “The Wolf of Wall Street” and imagine myself as a billionaire trader throwing cool parties throwing money from a helicopter? Is it like a realistic dream or not?
Great question. The line between escapism and dreams that can come true is sometimes quite thin. If it is unlikely that you will be able to find the ring of omnipotence in our universe, then you can still become a billionaire trader. And it depends only on you whether the images drawn in your imagination will become an emotional drug or will motivate you to take specific actions.
If in the first case our brain builds images according to the principle “if I were a sultan” (trader, president, owner of a Ferrari), then in the second case a desire-request is formed: “I want to become/receive” (become a trader or president, get "Ferrari") The brain begins to look for solutions. Motivation kicks in.
All? No, this is just the beginning. If you stop at this stage and wait until it “dreams itself,” then even mundane desires will remain at the same level of realization as dreams of the crown of the Far Far Away Kingdom. This, by the way, is the answer to the question why visualization works for some and not for others. You will lie stupidly on the sofa and “visualize” - even a little room in Louisiana will remain a castle in the air. An unattainable dream.
Therefore, we move on to the next stage - we begin to act. As the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, “If you have built castles in the air, this does not mean that your work was in vain: this is exactly what real castles should look like. All that remains is to lay the foundation for them.”
An example of the difference between a dream and a goal
The first and probably most important difference between a dream and a goal is that a dream has no end. Your dreams are always abstract and endless. For example, everyone as a child would like to grow up and become doctors (or astronauts/policemen). But we hardly dreamed of any specific focus - surgeon, pediatrician, therapist. Or, for example, we fantasized about how nice it would be to have a horse or a raccoon, but due to certain circumstances we clearly understood why this could not happen.
Both a dream and a goal - both concepts are aimed at the future. However, the first is aimed at an unattainable future, and the other at the real one. How successful a person will be over time depends precisely on how correctly he has set his goal.
What happens when a dream dies?
Sad statuses about dreams
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What happens when a dream dies? - The one you lived and breathed for many years... There is no dream - and the light turns off inside, And only darkness comes in you. Vikhareva Yulia
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Don't make plans or dream together. Because the person will leave, but your dreams will remain and trample your empty soul far and wide...
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It's hard to give up on a dream. It is easier to complicate the path to it than to believe that your plans will not come true. Mariam Petrosyan
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Thank you for the pain... Hearing your voice, I understand... It’s not your fault... I just dream a lot...
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I have been given everything to live an exalted life. And I am perishing in laziness, debauchery and daydreaming.
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The hand was looking for water to draw! ... It didn't come true. And my legs were thirsty for a break! ... It didn't come true. But most of all it hurts my heart, How sweetly it dreamed! ... It didn't come true. Omar Khayyam
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I always dreamed of seeing in her eyes the love that is in mine. And today, finally, I saw her. But she's not for me
You don't even notice that your dreams are coming true. Everything is never enough for you.
Interesting facts about dreams and goals
Have you noticed that as you get older, you daydream less? Unfortunately, this is really true: the older we become, the less we tend to dream, it’s as if we begin to be ashamed of it and become realists. But daydreaming also has a positive side: dreams develop our creative thinking and creative abilities, and also help with mental pain and disorders.
People who write down their goals on paper tend to work harder to achieve them compared to those who keep their goals in their heads.
Therefore, if you have not done this yet, right now write down the answers to the following questions on a piece of paper and place them in a visible place: “What goals do you set for yourself?”, “Do you have a plan to achieve your goals?” .
Bringing dreams to life
Our dreams are lighthouses. These are burning runways for life's planes of happiness, abundance, success, popularity, health and everything beautiful that people love to dream about. Moreover, a dream is a huge beacon in the very center of a person’s worldview. The higher the “beacon” and the more filled with wisdom and inspiration, the more often you think about happiness for other people, the more “light” there is in your worldview and the simpler it is you to make wise, effective decisions in business and family.
But there is a catch in this bright story - envy, which is a strong poison for our dreams. To get rid of toxic emotions and remove obstacles to your dreams, use the practice of attracting the realization of desires. At the same time, it helps to work through the level of your own envy.
Practice getting rid of envy.
For example, you have a dream of getting married. According to this practice, you should look for and give special strength and attention to situations in which your relatives, acquaintances and even strangers meet loved ones, appreciate them, celebrate weddings, their anniversaries and other joyful family events. As soon as you learn about happy events in the personal lives of others, try to feel strong joy for them. This will help your heart emit special waves to which, like the voice of a dolphin, your dreams will “magically” respond.
Make up your dreams
Remember, almost 10 years ago there was such a song from the group KASTA, very popular:
“Make dreams, there are millions of chances that everything will come true soon”?
I remember jumping on the bed, screaming this song, and dreaming of flying away to live abroad. Then I was finishing university and had already participated in local Siberian fashion shows. A month later, the dream came true - she flew away and worked as a model on international catwalks for many years and even posed for the cover of a travel magazine in Vietnam.
Is this a coincidence or magic? I will answer: “neither one nor the other.”
For some reason, as we grow older, we dream less often, and our dreams come true less often. Why? How to program yourself for success? Interesting? Read on...
Quotes about achieving goals (242 quotes)
The best motivation in life is the wise sayings of great and famous people - leaders, scientists, successful entrepreneurs. Their quotes about achieving a goal in a person’s life will become your motto and will help you not to lose faith in your own strengths and make your dream come true. If you want to achieve significant heights in life, you cannot hope and expect that plans will come true on their own. The path to success must begin with setting a goal, defining a plan of action and, of course, motivation. At a minimum, it is necessary to answer the question: what is the greatest goal of your life? Statistically, people who move forward according to a plan are more likely to achieve success. Remember that the whole world lies at your feet, it is important to correctly define your goal and strive to achieve it every day. Quotes about achieving goals are presented in this collection.
Each person individually and everyone together has, one might say, a certain goal, in pursuit of which they choose one thing and avoid another.
Aristotle
If you have a long journey ahead of you, don’t try to look beyond the horizon; you’ll trip over the first stump. Place a pole, place it neither far nor close, so that there is a perspective and the pole is clearly visible. Walk towards her slowly, but confidently and with dignity. When you get there, rearrange it again and go. The main thing is the inexorability of movement.
Nikolay I. Leonov
Free trade is not a principle, but a means to an end.
Benjamin Disraeli
To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goal; in fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He who believes in his luck is lucky.
K. Goebbel
If you want to achieve the goal of your aspiration, ask more politely about the road you have lost your way.
William Shakespeare
I use any means to achieve my goal.
Leonardo da Vinci
Satisfaction comes from effort, not from achieving a goal.
Gandhi Mahatma K.
If you work towards your goals, then those goals will work for you.
D. Ron
I am constantly in the process of achieving my goal and I am very happy about it. The difference is that other people need to sleep, but I always said that I would sleep in the next world.
Jared D. Leto
Often what you strived for - after achieving the goal - becomes something to which you are absolutely indifferent.
Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin)
Happiness lies in the joy of achieving a goal and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Roosevelt
You must treat yourself today as a person who has achieved success.
D. Ron
If work is just a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Eckhart Tolle
If you want to achieve a goal, don't try to be subtle or smart. Use rough methods. Hit the target immediately. Go back and hit again. Then hit again, with a strong shoulder blow.
Winston Churchill
Lies, lies, lies... Lies for salvation, lies for atonement for guilt, lies for achieving a goal, lies for a career, prosperity, orders, apartment... Lies! All of Russia was covered with lies like a scab.
Vasily Shukshin
Not only advisable, but also necessary.
Cicero Marcus Tullius
Without great obstacles there can be no great achievements!
Voltaire
The best motivation for a man to achieve any heights and goals will always be a worthy woman next to him.
Unknown author
It is impossible to talk about any great achievements and successes as long as there are unfortunate children on earth.
Albert Einstein
Start every morning by reading the list of the richest people. If you're not there, get to work.
R. Orben
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pockets.
P. Bauet
People ask me: how to stay active? It's very simple. Count your achievements and dreams in your mind. If your dreams are greater than your achievements, then you are still young. If it's the other way around, you're old.
Shimon Peres
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is a process, not a result; it is an effort, not a triumph. Success is a personal standard, it is achieving the maximum of what we can while becoming the best we can be.
Zig Ziglar
Don't betray your goal! Change your tactics and strategy to achieve it.
Olexa Dovbush
Success is being on time.
M. Tsvetaeva
Set yourself only achievable goals.
Horace Quintus Horace Flaccus
Remaining yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest achievement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dream means to strive for happiness, believing that no matter how difficult its achievement may be, everything will be exactly as you dream!
Unknown author
Many envy the result, but few envy the path to achieve it. Unknown author
The result justifies the action.
Ovid
Each time you need to jump off a cliff and grow wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
Most people never achieve anything in life because they spend all their time and energy achieving other people's goals.
Natalia Grace
Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material wealth, all great discoveries and inventions, as well as all achievements.
Claude Bristol
Many people live in hope for the future, and such people are always dissatisfied. They hope for quick success - winning the lottery or something like that.
I know goals are important. And money is important. But the main thing is this: money is a means to an end, not the end itself. And what happens to you now is just as important as what you plan for the future. So even though my calendar is filled months in advance, I teach
tried to live for today.
Richard Branson
The world belongs to optimists, pessimists are just spectators.
F. Guizot
He who is everywhere is nowhere.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
The secret of success is to know something that no one else knows.
A. Onassis
The greatest achievement in the world was originally just a dream.
James Allen
When your children achieve something, it is much more important than your own achievements!
Unknown author
Some people live to achieve a goal, but what happens when the day comes and the goal is achieved? Can you imagine that the goal will be achieved? And then what? Maybe those who believe that the goal is life are right, and life is the most precious thing, and everything that serves life is moral.
Letters to my son
You can be invincible if you do not enter into any battle in which victory does not depend on you.
Epictetus
In serious matters, one should care not so much about creating favorable opportunities as about not missing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The only obstacle on the way to our tomorrow's achievements is our doubts today.
Franklin Roosevelt
If you want to achieve a goal, you must “see it happening” in your mind before you actually achieve it.
Zig Ziglar
Honesty and integrity are absolutely essential to achieving success in life, in all areas of life. The good news is that everyone can develop them!
Zig Ziglar
There are people who live without any purpose, they pass through the world as if they were blades of grass in a river, they don’t walk, they are carried along.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
The only way to get to the top of the ladder is to take it one step at a time. And in the process of this ascent, you will suddenly discover in yourself all the necessary qualities, skills and abilities needed to achieve success, which you seemingly never possessed.
Margaret Thatcher
Money as such has no meaning. They are just a tool to achieve certain goals, and you need to understand what they can do and, most importantly, what they cannot do.
Bruce Lee
Let it be our highest goal to speak as we feel, and to live as we speak.
Seneca Lucius Annaeus (the Younger)
Anyone can give up - it's the easiest thing in the world. But to continue, even when everyone around you accepted and would forgive you for your defeat - this is where real strength lies.
I want it. So it will be.
G. Ford
Every dream is given to you along with the strength necessary to make it come true. However, you may have to work hard for this.
Richard Bach
No goal is so high as to justify unworthy means to achieve it.
Albert Einstein
No one really knows how you feel, what you really strive for, or what you actually try to do to achieve certain goals. Hell, I myself don’t even know what I’ve been striving for all this time. The only thing I knew was that I didn't want to be just part of a huge system called "society."
Johnny Depp
The ultimate goal of any human activity is to achieve peace.
Sigmund Freud
It is bad if the authorities test their strength through insults; it is bad if respect is acquired by horror; With love you will achieve what you want much sooner than with fear.
Pliny the Younger
If you try, you have two options: it will work or it won’t. And if you don't try, there is only one option.
If work is just a means to an end, it cannot be of high quality.
Eckhart Tolle
Be modest, disarming, and downplay your virtues and achievements. Save your cruelty and ability to be menacing for those cases when it is really necessary.
Donald Trump
To reach the goal, a person needs only one thing. Go.
Honore de Balzac
The easier a goal is to achieve, the weaker the desire for it.
Pliny the Younger
Before celebrating a victory, make sure you have achieved it. Serge Goodman
Nothing helps you master the art of swearing like assembly and operating instructions.
Gennady Moskvin
Any significant person wants something and, moreover, is ready to use any means to achieve his goal.
Paul Joseph Goebbels
You will never cross the ocean if you are afraid of losing sight of the shore.
H. Columbus
The desire to succeed without hard work is similar to the desire to harvest where you did not plant the seeds. David Bligh
I never set goals for myself. American culture is entirely based on the category of goal and how to achieve it. But I'm an Englishman from Australia, and goals limit us.
Hugh Jackman
Wealthy people see a goal and take responsibility for achieving it, personally invest in this work, approach problems creatively and do not blame anyone if something goes wrong. The main thing is to understand that your well-being and well-being depend on your own decisions.
Dmitry Vasilievich Breytenbicher
Plans are just a set of intentions. If they do not immediately develop into concrete actions aimed at achieving your goals. But it is important to remember that every minute spent on planning will later save a huge amount of time and money.
Dmitry Vasilievich Breytenbicher
To swim against the current, a fish must be strong; even a dead fish can swim with the current.
John Crow Ransom
Something pure does not become worse if bad people take care of it; in general, it is the lot of the good.
Pliny the Younger
Defeat is just one of the options for the development of events that must be discarded as unnecessary.
Joan Landen
Decisiveness: Persistence in achieving a goal that you approve of. Stubbornness: persistence in pursuing a goal that you do not approve of.
Ambrose Gwyneth Bierce
The starting point of any achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in your memory. Weak desires produce weak results, just as a small amount of fire produces a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
Concentrate all your efforts on achieving what you want so that you don’t have time to fear what you don’t want.
Napoleon Hill
We are born to be persistent, because only through persistence will we know what we are truly worth.
Tobias Wolf
To achieve success, you need to do only 2 things: clearly define what you really want, and then pay the required amount for it all.
Nelson Bunker Hunt
If the goal is legal, the means are also legal.
Unknown author
Define your goals! Work to achieve them! Direct your thoughts, control your emotions, act, and you will become the true creator of your destiny. You will find the answers you need if you look for them.
Napoleon Hill
I don't believe in luck, Sam "Luck" is the label that mediocrity places on the achievements of geniuses.
Robert Anson Heinlein
Exceptional people, creators, intellectual giants are not restrained by the majority. In fact, it is they, the minority, who bring the entire free society up to the level of their achievements, rising higher and higher.
While the majority was gradually realizing the value of the car, a talented minority offered society an airplane. The concept of selfishness
Ayn Rand
Dreams are like stars... you may never reach them, but if you reach for them, they will lead you to your destiny.
Gail Deavers
Great careers, great achievements are born from the meeting of character, genius and luck.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Happiness lies in the joy of achieving a goal and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Roosevelt
It’s not without reason that people came up with the phrase: “This should be celebrated! " By celebrating your achievements, you reinforce the connection between success and reward in your subconscious. Subsequently, you will unconsciously strive for new successes in order to receive rewards. Your subconscious will help you overcome laziness and begin to motivate you to conquer new heights.
Christina Kashkan
If you chase two hares, you won't catch either.
Unknown author
Praise yourself for what you have already achieved and don't get discouraged.
Salma Hayek
If you want to be better than others, then get ready to do what others don't want to do. Mike Phelps
If you are not ready to work, then you are ready to lose.
Mark Spitz
The sleeper will get nothing but dreams.
Serena Williams
The teacher said, “Seeing good in front of me, I run forward as if I’m afraid to fall behind. Seeing evil in front of me, I run away as if I had stepped foot into boiling water.” I have heard such words and seen such people. “I live in solitude in order to achieve my goal, and I follow what is necessary in order to prevent my truth.” I have heard these words, but I have never met such a person.
Confucius (Kun Tzu)
If you're not going to go all the way, why are you even doing it?
Joe Namath
There may be people more talented than you, but you will not find excuses if someone works harder than you.
Derek Jeter
Practice. Learn. Always be prepared.
Derek Jeter
Achieving your goals requires patience and enthusiasm. Think globally - but be realistic.
Donald Trump
The goal of every good action is to love what is worthy of love, to hate what is worthy of hatred, to enjoy what is worthy of pleasure, and to enjoy what is beneficial. What is bad is to use what you should enjoy, enjoy what you should use, hate what you love and love what you hate.
Lorenzo Pisano
If you want to have little time, then do nothing.
It’s easier to do something well right away than to explain later why it was done poorly. Longfellow
To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goal; In fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.
F. La Rochefoucauld
A mind that has no definite purpose is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.
Michel de Montaigne
If you want to start a new life, you must not only close the door to the past, but also lose the key to it. Endlessly returning to the past is psychological masturbation.
Irina Rodnina
Each of us always has a choice: to concentrate on the next obstacle or to shift our attention to the final goal. Many people spend a lot of time constantly struggling with problems instead of taking real steps towards achieving their goals.
If you work for the present, your work will come out insignificant; one must work with only the future in mind.
If you want to achieve the goal of your aspiration, ask more politely about the road you have lost your way.
William Shakespeare
When a person has many directions to go, in general, he has nowhere to go.
Ilf Petrov
Random successes have never led anyone to victory.
The biggest mistake is experiencing a mistake.
It is not those people who do not achieve their goal who are deprived of insight, but those who pass by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Victory goes not to the one who is compliant, but to the one who is stronger.
Successful people know what they want, unsuccessful people know what they don’t want.
You will never solve all your problems if you have too much free time. Make sure you never have any free time.
To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goal; in fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Believing in yourself is an essential condition for achieving success. Believe, be sure to believe that everything will work out for you and you will achieve your goal.
The decision to move forward so as not to become a victim of circumstances.
By persistently overcoming all obstacles and without being distracted, you can surely achieve your chosen goal or arrive at your intended place.
Some people strive so passionately and persistently for the object of their desires that, fearing losing it, they do everything in their power to really miss it.
Jean de La Bruyère
With the proper choice of allies, victory in any conflict can be guaranteed.
If you want to achieve maximum effectiveness, you must use your power openly and honestly.
If you can't win fairly, just win!
You have found yourself a devoted friend, if, having risen, he has not become acquainted with you.
Jean de La Bruyère
A person lacks the wisdom to rest on his laurels.
Daniel Defoe
We judge ourselves by what we are able to achieve; others judge us by what we have achieved.
Henry W. Longfellow
When we strive for something, this something appears to us in an exclusively positive light; but now the goal has been achieved, and now only the negative aspects of our enterprise are striking.
Jonathan Swift
Even if I achieve nothing, even if my calculations are wrong, even if I burst and fail, it’s all the same - I’m going. I'm going because I want to.
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Feed your mind with great thoughts because you can never go higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli
To achieve your goal, efficiency is needed no less than knowledge.
Pierre Beaumarchais
Winning is not the most important thing; that's the only thing!
Without great obstacles there can be no great achievements!
Voltaire
Most writers consider the truth to be their most valuable asset - which is why they use it so sparingly.
Mark Twain
Remaining yourself in a world where everyone is trying to change you is the highest achievement.
Ralph W. Emerson
Small offenses entail punishment, major ones - rewards.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Making a mistake is also an achievement. Thomas R. Dewar
A dollar can't fly between your ass and the sofa.
Bill Gates
True success grows from the ruins of your failures!
Vadim Zeland
It is better not to make decisions than to make and not implement them. The decision made must be implemented.
A good goal can impart value only to those means that are sufficient and actually lead to the goal.
David Hume
You should be proud of your achievements, not your jewelry.
Tina Kandelaki
Scientific research has overtaken spiritual development. We have guided missiles and unguided people.
Martin Luther King
The goal must be useful, socially significant, and attractive.
Making a name on records is not a thing, of course someone can do it, but there is a huge difference between how you do it and whether you achieve self-respect.
Kurt Cobain
The greatest achievement of the 21st century has been cowardice, hypocrisy and fear of public opinion.
Sergey Minaev
There are many ways to kill a cat, you don't have to feed it oil.
Margaret Mitchell
Fate is usually hiding around the corner. Like a pickpocket, a whore, or a lottery ticket seller; three of her most human incarnations. But what she never does is come to the house. You have to go after her yourself.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It is human nature to value and desire above all else what he cannot achieve.
Sigmund Freud
The starting point of any achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in your memory. Weak desires produce weak results, just as a small amount of fire produces a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
The goal you set must be carefully considered.
Concentrate all your efforts on achieving what you want so that you don’t have time to fear what you don’t want.
Napoleon Hill
The starting point of all achievements is desire.
Napoleon Hill
When I turned 12, one of my friends bet another guy a bag of candy that I wouldn't amount to anything. I don’t know whether this dispute was resolved and in whose favor.
Stephen Hawking
Sometimes a blow misses its target, but intention cannot miss.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
When you are resilient to what people say about you and unafraid of any challenge, you can harness the power of love and use energy creatively to achieve abundance and growth.
Deepak Chopra
Any “good times” are always the result of your hard work and constant dedication in the past. What you do today is the key to tomorrow's results. If you want to reap the benefits tomorrow, sow the seeds every day! If you weaken your concentration for even a minute, you will inevitably begin to roll back.
Donald Trump
Do not think, no matter how great you are, that you have achieved everything and comprehended everything.
Yusuf Balasaguni
The goal you set must match your capabilities.
Whoever wants to achieve greatness must, as Goethe said, be able to limit himself. Whoever, on the contrary, wants everything, actually wants nothing and will achieve nothing. Hegel
I have what I have because I sacrificed a lot.
Cristiano Ronaldo
We usually quickly forget about our successes and focus on failures. This is wrong, we must always remember our achievements - they give us the strength to take new milestones.
Alexander Sviyash
Reason shows us the goal, and passions lead us away from it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
If a person throws a spear at a target all day, he will eventually hit it.
M.T. Cicero
The goal of every good action is to love what is worthy of love, to hate what is worthy of hatred, to enjoy what is worthy of pleasure and to use what is beneficial. What is bad is to use what you should enjoy, enjoy what you should use, hate what you love and love what you hate.
Lorenzo Pisano
The past and present are our means, only the future is our goal.
B. Pascal
If you don't have a goal, you don't do anything, and you don't do anything great if the goal is insignificant.
Denis Diderot
Just as peace is the end of war, so idleness is the end of employment.
S.Johnson
When we strive for something, this something appears to us in an exclusively positive light; but now the goal has been achieved, and now only the negative aspects of our enterprise are striking.
J. Swift
A good goal can impart value only to those means that are sufficient and actually lead to the goal.
D. Hume
To be just one step away from the goal or not to get closer to it at all is, in essence, the same thing.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Each person individually and everyone together has, one might say, a certain goal, in pursuit of which they choose one thing and avoid another.
Aristotle
Man and, in general, every rational being exists as an end in itself.
I. Kant
The slowest man, unless he loses sight of his goal, walks faster than the one who wanders aimlessly.
G.E. Lessing
To achieve your goal, efficiency is needed no less than knowledge.
Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais
Achieving the highest virtues is the goal of man. You should not set any limits for yourself in achieving them.
G.S. Pan
If you don't have a goal, you don't do anything, and you don't do anything great if the goal is insignificant.
D. Diderot
Sometimes a blow misses its target, but intention cannot miss.
J-J. Rousseau
Do not deviate from your goal for a single day - this is a means of extending time, and, moreover, a very sure means, although it is not easy to use.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Reason shows us the goal, and passions lead us away from it.
J-J. Rousseau
True science knows neither likes nor dislikes: its only goal is truth.
W. Grove
The purpose of life is self-expression. The highest duty is duty to oneself.
O. Wilde
High goals, even if unfulfilled, are dearer to us than low goals, even if achieved.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
If a person is healthy and has a goal, he does not think about whether he is happy or not. Sometimes he doesn't even think about whether others are happy or not.
J.B. Show
The goal can only be achieved when the means itself are already thoroughly imbued with the own nature of the goal.
F. Lassalle
An end that requires wrong means is not a right end.
K. Marx
I respect people who know exactly what they want. Most of the troubles around the world come from people not being clear enough about their goals. When they begin to erect a building, they spend too little effort on the foundation for the tower to stand.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for a certain time, a goal for the year, for the month, for the week, for the day and for the hour and for the minute, sacrificing the lower goals to the higher ones.
L.N. Tolstoy
Satisfy all the desires of a person, but take away his purpose in life, and see what an unhappy and insignificant creature he appears.
K.D. Ushinsky
Purpose in life is the core of human dignity and human happiness.
K.D. Ushinsky
Difficulties increase as you approach your goal. But let everyone make their own way
like the stars, calmly, not rushing, but constantly striving towards the intended goal.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
We are fascinated by everything in which our ideal, goal and object of our desires and our love are manifested.
N.G Chernyshevsky
You have to aim above the target to hit the target.
RU. Emerson
Our life is a journey, our idea is a guide. There is no guide and everything has stopped. The goal is lost, and the strength is gone.
V. Hugo
Anyone who wants to achieve a lot must set high standards.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
To set all his forces in motion, a person needs to place some noble thing in front of him.
a goal that can inspire him.
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It is equally difficult for a poet, a senator and a shoemaker to admit that he is not the ultimate goal of the universe and the meaning of all things. A. France
What you have achieved cannot mean more to others than to yourself.
L. Wittgenstein
Truly serious pursuit of any goal is half the success in achieving it.
Wilhelm Humboldt
When the path from the means to the end is not too long, the means become no less tempting than the end itself.
B. Russell
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means determine the nature of the end. O. Huxley
The goal itself can often be a means to achieving a further goal.
F. Brentano
Only one third is achieved through abuse, while love and concessions achieve everything.
Jean Paul
Once we finally lost sight of the goal, we redoubled our efforts.
J. Santayana
The goal can only be achieved when the means itself are already thoroughly imbued with the own nature of the goal.
A. Bergson
When you reach a goal, you realize that the path was the goal.
P. Valerie
No amount of results or achievements can correct the wrong direction.
Lev Tolstoy
The goal can only be achieved when the means itself are already thoroughly imbued with the own nature of the goal.
Ferdinand Lassalle
Give a person a purpose to live for, and he can survive in any situation.
I. Goethe
On the way to our goal, each of us faces many difficulties and obstacles. Sometimes it takes time to gain strength and move on. In such situations, do not be upset - they happen to everyone
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Often, the wisdom and experience of older generations helps us get back on our feet. It’s good if a person has a mentor or just close people who are ready to support at the right time. Also, the aphorisms of the great, recognized by millions of people, help to tune in to achieving the goal.
Every day I work towards achieving a goal is a dream. The main thing is the process, not the end result. Dean Koontz
Through the achievement of great goals, a person discovers in himself a great character, which makes him a beacon for others.
Georg Hegel
Let every mistake teach you a great lesson: every sunset is the beginning of a very, very bright and big dawn...
Sri Chinmoy
If you have a problem, try to solve it. If you can't solve it, then don't make a problem out of it.
Buddha
Difficulties increase as you approach your goal. But let everyone make their way like the stars - calmly, slowly, but continuously striving towards their intended goal.
I. Goethe
If you want to, but you can’t, it means you don’t really want to.
Mark Twain
Miracles happen when you risk everything for a dream that no one but you can see. You just have to believe.
Clint Eastwood
Sometimes you have to run to see who will run after you. Sometimes you have to speak softer to see who is really listening to you. Sometimes you have to take a step back to see who else is on your side. Sometimes you have to make bad decisions to see who is with you when everything falls apart. Paulo Coelho
The slowest man, unless he loses sight of his goal, walks faster than the one who wanders aimlessly.
G. Lessing
The height of the mountain you climbed is determined by the depth of the hole you climbed out of.
Socrates
What you believe in and expect with all your soul and all your heart will definitely happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Having conquered pride, a person becomes pleasant. Having overcome his anger, he becomes cheerful. Having overcome passion, he becomes successful. Having overcome greed, he becomes happy.
Arabic wisdom
The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means determine the nature of the end.
Aldous Huxley
You must always live in love with something inaccessible to you. A person becomes taller by stretching upward.
Maksim Gorky
We must call for, rather than wait for, inspiration to get things started. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration rarely breeds action.
Frank Tibolt
Achieving your goals requires patience and enthusiasm. Think globally - but be realistic.
Donald Trump
Whatever your goal is, you can achieve it if you are willing to work hard. Oprah Winfrey
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achieving a goal. The antidote to this is to think every evening that you can do better tomorrow.
Ingvar Kamprad
Never, ever let others convince you that something is difficult or impossible.
Douglas Badler
Goals should be clear, simple and written down on paper. If they are not written down on paper and you review them every day, they are not goals. These are wishes.
Robert Kiyosaki
To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goal; in fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed
La Rochefoucauld
Follow your dreams with confidence. Live the life you want to live
Henry David Thoreau
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is today
Chinese proverb
How few people have their own goals. And how many people make other people’s goals their targets.
Stas Yankovsky
Determination of purpose is the starting point of all achievements
Clement Stone
A person can achieve everything that he is able to comprehend and accept with his mind
Napoleon Hill
No goal is so high that it justifies unworthy means to achieve it.
Einstein
To justify ourselves in our own eyes, we often convince ourselves that we are unable to achieve our goal; in fact, we are not powerless, but weak-willed.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To set all his forces in motion, a person needs to place in front of him some noble goal that can inspire him
Renan
Through the achievement of great goals, a person discovers in himself a great character, which makes him a beacon for others Hegel
The nature of the means must be the same as the nature of the goal, only then can the means lead to the goal. Bad means are only suitable for bad ends.
N. Chernyshevsky
The goal in life is life itself.
I. Goethe
The main sign of talent is when a person knows what he wants.
Peter Kapitsa
Don't be afraid of the future. Look at him, do not be deceived about him, but do not be afraid. Yesterday I climbed onto the captain's bridge and saw waves as huge as mountains and the bow of a ship that was confidently cutting them. And I asked myself why the ship overcomes the waves, although there are so many of them, and he is alone? And I realized that the reason is that the ship has a goal, but the waves do not. If we have a goal, we will always get where we want.
Winston Churchill
You need to set yourself tasks that are higher than your strengths, firstly, because you never know them anyway, and secondly, because strength appears as you complete an unattainable task. B. Pasternak
When dreams come true...
Sometimes it happens that a person who has achieved what he wants is less happy about it than he expected. How so? So much effort has been put in, but the result does not last long... Perhaps this is because this dream was not real, not yours, imposed. Or maybe the very process of overcoming obstacles to achieve a goal is life itself? This is very wisely said in beautiful quotes and aphorisms about dreams.
“If your dream has come true, check to see if this is what you really dreamed about.”
“A dream has two forms: a dream as a goal, and a dream as a diagnosis.”
Tetcorax
“There are two tragedies in a person’s life: one is when his dream does not come true, the other is when it has already come true.”
Bernard Show
“There is no greater disappointment than a dream come true.”
Ernst Heine
“Every desire finds death in its very satisfaction.”
Washington Irving
“Happiness is one step before a dream, a nightmare is one step after...”
“Castles in the air are much stronger than real ones.”
Sergey Fedin
“There is disappointment in achievement when a dream led to destruction.”
Ali ibn Abi Talib
“To joke with a dream is dangerous; a broken dream can constitute the misfortune of life; chasing a dream, you can miss life or, in a fit of insane inspiration, sacrifice it.”
Dmitry Pisarev
“The coward’s eternal dream is to do something heroic and not get hurt.”
Leonid Krainov-Rytov
“When you finally get what you wanted, it turns out it wasn’t what you wanted at all.”
Gertrude Stein
“As soon as a dream disappears, it means that reality takes its place.”
Anna de Stael
“There is no return to dreams and years.”
Alexander Pushkin
“Nothing is more destructive to a dream than its realization.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Don't stop dreaming! To dream like children - uncontrollably believing in miracles, and like adults - realizing that to get a result you will have to gather all your will into a fist and make a lot of effort. I hope this collection of quotes and aphorisms was interesting and useful for you, dear readers, at least for me, many of them became motivating and thought-provoking.
And I saved my favorite aphorism on this topic for last. "This is impossible!" - said Reason. "This is recklessness!" - Experience noted. "It's useless!" - Pride snapped. “Try...” whispered Dream.”
And for the soul, I suggest you listen to the composition by Ernesto Cortazar - River of dreams .
What is the difference between a dream and a wish?
As mentioned above, desire is one of the steps on the ladder leading from dreams to goals, which means that one of the differences between these concepts lies in their function. Each stage has its own purpose. If the meaning of a dream is to form an image of what one wants, then the desire is intended to encourage a person to begin the path to the object of his dreams and fantasies. It is the first push that is of great importance in the implementation of any planned business.
At this stage, motivation is especially strong, as emotions and experiences predominate. They are the ones who stimulate achievements in order to get what a person wants. Internal dissatisfaction from the fact that a person does not have what he wants at the moment pushes him to take active action.
Dream until your dream comes true...
Scientists have long proven the fact that the brain works more actively and with much greater productivity during our dreams. Maybe this is what the principle of visualizing desires is based on? After all, if you clearly and clearly imagine your dream, it will definitely help in its fulfillment. This is exactly what we are talking about in quotes and aphorisms that dreams come true.
“Dreams can come true if you want it bad enough. You can get anything in life if you sacrifice something else to get it.”
James Matthew Barry
“Everything that exists in the world was once a dream.”
Sheryl Kara Sandberg
“A good dream and an insatiable desire to fulfill it means that the dream will come true.”
Silovan Ramishvili
“If a person’s dreams come true, then this is part of his life plans.”
Juliana Wilson
“Dreams become reality when thoughts turn into actions.”
Dmitry Antonov
“If you confidently move in the direction of your dreams and make an effort to live the life you dream of, you are sure to meet luck that is unexpected in ordinary times.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The Universe always helps us achieve our dreams, no matter how stupid they may be. For these are our dreams, and only we know what it took to dream them.”
“When you really want something, the whole Universe will help make your wish come true.”
Paulo Coelho
“At first dreams seem impossible, then implausible, and then inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve
“Every dream is given to you along with the strength necessary to realize it. However, you may have to work for it.”
Richard Bach
“Our wildest dreams are coming true, it’s time for the timid ones.”
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
“Don't complain that your dreams don't come true; Only those who never dreamed deserve pity.”
Maria von Ebner-Eschenbach
“When we can no longer dream, we die.”
Emma Goldman
"Dreams Come True. You just need to replace the words “dream” with “goal”, “desire” with “task”, “aspiration” with action.”
“Believe in your dream. It has a wonderful feature – it can come true.”
“If they tell you that dreams don’t come true, don’t believe them. They come true if you fight for them.”
Main goals in human life
We strive to satisfy basic needs: food, comfort, safety, entertainment. The main goals in a person’s life are a happy family, a big house and a carefree old age. All of this refers to long-term goals, in order to progress towards which you need to complete daily short-term ones.
Main goal in life: philosophy
Aristotle believed that the goal of human life is happiness, which consists of thinking and knowing. Thus, the main goal in life according to Aristotle is constant self-development.
L.N. Tolstoy agreed with Aristotle. He believed that the essence of life is self-improvement and personal development.
Kant wrote: “man’s existence has within itself a highest goal, to which, as far as it is in his power, he can subordinate all nature.” According to his thoughts, the purpose of the individual is to work for the good of society. When a person dies, only his works and his activities remain.
Male and female aspirations
A man's goals in life and a woman's goals are different. Men, on average, are inclined to extract resources, to fight for supremacy (in the financial market, in sports). The purpose in the life of an ordinary woman is associated with creative fulfillment, family, and motherhood. This is just a statistic, not a rule. There are ladies who dream of a sports career and financial success, and men who dream of a strong and large family.
Circle of life goals
There is a psychological technique that helps you determine what exactly is missing in your life. For this:
- Draw a circle on a piece of paper.
- Divide it into 8 sectors.
- Name them like this: “Hobbies”, “Health”, “Personal growth”, “Career”, “Family”, “Environment”, “Creativity”, “Recreation”.
- Think about each of these areas. What suits you most and what least? Draw each sector with colored markers or pencils.
- The 100% shaded segment shows your complete satisfaction with this area of life. And the one you leave empty reflects dissatisfaction and the need for change.
- Draw a similar circle nearby. Now fill it out with how you would like to feel in these areas.
- Compare what you want with what you actually have. Pay special attention to those areas where the difference is felt most acutely.
The exercise makes it clear which area of your activity has been left unattended. The circle of goals is a good technique that allows you to understand yourself and understand “what’s wrong with you.”
What goals can there be in life?
Human aspirations are divided into:
- long-term;
- short-term;
Any goal implies a clear deadline for completion. Short-term goals are achieved after a day, a week, a month. Long-term ones take several months or years to complete.
Short term goals in life
A person seeking to find the meaning of his existence must set small goals for himself. This way you will know what is feasible for you and what is difficult or impossible. For example:
- give up several types of unhealthy foods starting tomorrow (flour, sweets);
- draw up a motivation sheet before the evening;
- sign up for a gym within a month;
Long term goals in life
Long-term goals can be set when several steps have already been completed. For example, you want a good car, but with your current income this is impossible. Then you start looking for a high-paying job and find a suitable option for yourself. And here an obstacle appears: the desired position requires knowledge of the language, the ability to drive a vehicle, and programming skills. Then you set yourself a long-term goal:
- learn English to a conversational level in 4 months;
- pass exams at a driving school;
- learn a programming language in six months;
- This is called long-term planning.
Traveling along dream roads
It always seemed to me that dreams are akin to travel. Both there and there we seem to be living in the future. We see and feel something that we don’t yet have, but which will definitely bring us positive emotions, give us something new and definitely good. How beautifully this is said in quotes and aphorisms about travel and dreams.
“The journey to your dreams begins today.”
Joanne Rowling
“The world is a book. And whoever has not traveled along it has read only one page of it.”
Aurelius Augustine
“In 20 years, you will regret more the things you didn’t do than the things you did do. Therefore, raise the anchors and sail away from the quiet harbor. Catch the fair wind in your sails. Use it. Dream. Make discoveries."
Mark Twain
“Life while traveling is a dream in its purest form.”
Agatha Christie
“Life is a journey. For some it’s the way to the bakery and back, and for others it’s a trip around the world.”
Konstantin Khabensky
“If a person remains unchanged on a journey, it is a bad journey.”
Ernst Simon Bloch
“Travel reveals a lot to us, makes us think and dream about a lot.”
Dmitry Likhachev
“Move, breathe, soar, swim, receive what you give, dream, explore, travel - this is what it means to live!”
Hans Christian Andersen
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
Lao Tzu
“Don’t follow where the path leads, go further where there is no path and leave a path behind you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The hardest thing is you know what? When you think you should do one thing, but they tell you: do something else. And they speak in unison, they say the most fair words, and you yourself begin to think: but, probably, they really are right. It may happen that they are right. But if there is even a drop of doubt in you, if in the very, very depths of your soul there remains a crumb of confidence that you are right, and not they, do it your way. Don’t justify yourself with someone else’s correct words.”
Vladislav Krapivin
