Original from Zig Ziglar https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zig_Ziglar <br class="br">Misattributed
Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker
As quoted in Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000) by Lilly Walters, p. 96
Variant: What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Attributed to Zig Ziglar
Misattributed
“If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.”
John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist
As quoted in Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library (1992) edited by Jacob Morton Braude and Glenn Van Ekeren
“Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement.”
Patrick Dixon book Building a Better Business
Building a Better Business (2005)
“Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 16
Context: While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to achieve true success.
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
movie The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Jordan Belfort played by Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Rise to the Stature of the Divine within You, Ensign, Nov 1989, 94.
