A dream is a vision, a goal is a promise. You can keep your promises to yourself by remaining flexible, focused, and committed.
Interpretation
Dreams are visions of what we want, while goals are commitments to achieve them.
In this quote, Denis Waitley emphasizes the importance of transforming dreams into actionable goals. He suggests that by staying adaptable, maintaining focus, and committing to our promises, we can effectively pursue and realize our aspirations.
In practice
In a motivational speech, you might say, 'Remember, a dream is a vision, a goal is a promise.'
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.
You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.
Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.
Even when I was a little kid, I always dreamed that I would play Serena in a final of a Grand Slam.
If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you'll be ineffective. If you're disciplined enough, you don't get down when you're behind, and you have a chance to create something positive.
We have to earn our Wings every day.
Never surrender, it's all about the faith you got: don't ever stop, just push it 'till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
If the first plan which you adopt does not work successfully, replace it with a new plan; if this new plan fails to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a plan which does work. Right here is the point at which the majority of men meet with failure, because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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