It’s been one of those days today. I couldn’t string together two coherent sentences if I tried. So I am very grateful that others, older and wiser than I have written so much about gratitude that I can borrow a few of their words to share with you today.

Here are a few of my favorite quotes about gratitude.

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ~Johannes A. Gaertner

The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated. ~William James

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart

When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears ~Anthony Robbins

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~Author Unknown

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John F. Kennedy

Gratitude is the memory of the heart. ~French Proverb

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Thanks for being here! Don’t forget to share your favorite gratitude quotes in the comments!

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Today’s post is gonna be short and sweet. I’ve been fighting with a new wordpress theme on my marketing blog all day and I’m beat. Top it all off with what I thought was going to be a quick trip to the store, and two hours later… What was I thinking?

So tonight I shall defer to the experts and share with you my top 10 favorite quotes on setting goals.
There are so many great ones it’s hard to narrow it down, so this is my own personal preference. If you’ve got one to share, feel free to leave it in the comments.

1. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. – Earl Nightingale

2. This one step – choosing a goal and sticking to it – changes everything. – Scott Reed

3. What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving yoru goals. – von Goethe

4. You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. – Charles. C. Noble

5. Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high. – Greg Norman

6. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. – Mark Victor Hansen

7. A goal is created three times. First as a mental picture. Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And third, when you take action towards its achievement. – Gary Ryan Blair

8. Reduce your plan to writing… The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire. – Napoleon Hill

9. Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. – E. Joseph Crossman

10. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.- Anthony Robbins

Don’t forget to leave your favorite quotes on setting goals in the comments!

While I was writing up my goals for the upcoming year, I came to the realization that my vision for the future is somewhat cloudy, especially where it relates to my business aspirations. Doing that exercise was a real eye-opener for me because while I know what I want in every other area of my life, I really don’t have a clue what success in business looks like for me other than it involves a lot of writing (interspersed with lots of time off for golfing, of course).

Finding that vision of success is really important for me. I can’t really know how to plan for achieving success without having at least some idea of what it looks like. Fortunately, or maybe not so fortunately, there’s a whole personal development industry out there that’s only too happy to tell me what they think my success should look like. And while I’m very thankful for their words of wisdom and their willingness to share their ideas with me, in the end it all comes down to one thing… the only person who can define my success is me. And the only person who can define your success is you.

That’s not to say I’m not above borrowing the words of the experts to help me figure it all out. I keep a whole folder full of quotations just for that express purpose. Here are a few of my favorite “success is” quotes.

Success is loving life and daring to live it — Maya Angelou

Success is doing what yo ulove, loving what you do, and helping others to learn how to do the same. — Bob Burg

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

Success is a toll road … pay now or pay later. — Steve Siebold

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe

Success is not so much what we have as it is what we are. — Jim Rohn

Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain whatever it is you really want. — Mark Victor Hansen

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. — T. S. Eliot

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. — Al Bernstein

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. — William Feather

What does your success look like?