Small Goals Quotes

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

  John H. Johnson

  Dream, Giving, Goal

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• If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

  Azim Premji

  Business, Inspiration, People

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• Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

  Adolphe Monod

  Inspirational, Dream, Goal

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• If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

  John H. Johnson

  Dream, Thinking, Giving

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• Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time.

  Jean Charest

  Determination, Goal, Mind

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• I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Goal, Far Away

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• Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving, Thinking, Goal

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• Emphasize small goals when you have a team that isn’t going to win a lot of games

  Mike Dunlap

  Basketball, Team, Winning

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• Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

  Lee Haney

  Fitness, Exercise, Goal

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• Feeling lost? Take a dream and convert it into small goals, then start taking the steps to hit those goals.

  Dave Ramsey

  Dream, Goal, Feelings

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• Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Men, Generosity, Goal

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• Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

  Kara Goucher

  Running, Goal, Way

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• You have your goals. They may be small goals or they may be large goals. As you strive to achieve your goals, sometimes your conditions change and your goals will change as well.

  Jean Charest

  Determination, Goal, May

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• Having a CORE main focus is the key to being able to stay determined. Most people only set small goals and when they accomplish them... it's hard to stay on track as they are not trying to achieve anything else.

  Scott Herman

  Keys, People, Track

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