Gary Ryan Blair Quotes

• Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Precedence

• You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Opportunities

• We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Style, Exclamation

• Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today’s actions to tomorrow’s results. There’s a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Discipline, Act, Cultivation

• Money is always on its way somewhere. What you do with it while it is in your keeping and the direction you send it in say much about you. Your treatment of and respect for money, how you make it, and how you spend it, reflect your character.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Money, Respect

  Tags in Treatment

• Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Discipline, Meticulous, Attention

• Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Opportunity, Risk

  Tags in Creative, Seize

• Advancement only comes with habitually doing more than you are asked.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Advancement

• Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Achievement, Memory

  Tags in Dreams, Mind

• Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

  Gary Ryan Blair

  Topics in Achievement

  Tags in Consistently, Career

Gary Ryan Blair (10)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Coach, Consultant, Speaker

About

Gary Ryan Blair is an American author, speaker, coach, and consultant. He is dedicated to helping his clients win by creating focused, goal-directed lives. He is the president of The GoalsGuy, a highly focused training organization whose mission is to help its clients build and sustain superior performance. Blair's 14 best-selling books have sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and have been translated into seven languages. He has written several books include: Everything Counts, What Are Your Goals, Goal Setting 101, Goal Setting Forms, Failure & Progress, and Goal Setting for Knuckleheads.

 

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