Quotes on Goals
If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.
Denis Waitley
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Brian Tracy
It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah Moore
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John Rockefeller
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Jordan
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
The trouble for most people is they don’t decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.
Michael Masterson
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
Jean Nidetch
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
Robert Fritz
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
William Howard Taft
Having conceived of his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor the left. Doubts and fears should be rigorously excluded; they are disintegrating elements which break up the straight line of effort, rendering it crooked, ineffectual, useless. Thoughts of doubt and fear never accomplish anything, and never can. They always lead to failure. Purpose, energy, power to do, and all strong thoughts cease when doubt and fear creep in.
James Allen
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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight Eisenhower
Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.
Nido Qubein
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly toward an object, and in no measure obtained it? If a man constantly aspires, is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn
Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.
J. C. Penney
You should never share your goals with anyone unless you know they not only believe you can reach the goals but they want you to reach them. Others decide not to commit their goals to paper so if they don't quite "make it," they will have the built-in explanation that they didn't really fail because they never set those goals. This is a safer and even a "no risk" approach for them that guarantees they will not reach a fraction of their potential.
Zig Ziglar
Without long-range goals, you are likely to be overcome by short-range frustrations.
Zig Ziglar
A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.
Zig Ziglar
Our plans miscarry if they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
A winner concentrates on that which is goal achieving rather than tension relieving.
Denis Waitley
Most people don't think in terms of minutes. They waste all the minutes. Nor do they think in terms of their whole life. They operate in the mid-range of hours or days. So they start over again every week, and spend another chunk unrelated to their lifetime goals. They are doing a random walk through life, moving without getting anywhere.
Alan Lakein
The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.
William Danforth
I have observed that setting a goal makes no appeal to the mediocre. But to those fired with an ambition really to achieve greatly, setting a goal becomes a program that stirs the inner soul to action.
William Danforth
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein
Write down your goals, make plans to achieve them, and work on your plans every single day.
Brian Tracy
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Brian Tracy
Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal or goal.
Earl Nightingale
The starting point of all goal attainment is desire. You must develop an intense burning desire for your goals if you really want to achieve them.
Brian Tracy
Realize what you want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William Moulton Marsden
Determine a single measure that you can use to grade your progress and success in each area of your life. Refer to it daily.
Brian Tracy
Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.
Brian Tracy
When you achieve complete congruence between your values and your goals, like a hand in a glove, you feel strong, happy, healthy, and fully integrated as a person. You develop a kind of courage that makes you completely unafraid to make decisions and take action. Your whole life improves when you begin living your life by the values that you most admire.
Brian Tracy
Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying.
Amelia Earhart
If you are bored with life, if you don't have a burning desire to get up in the morning to do things, your problem is you do not have goals.
Lou Holtz
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
Og Mandino
You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try – you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
Viktor Frankl
I have brought myself by long meditation to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will that will state even existence for its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
If you aren't working on your goals, you aren't working. You're just wasting time.
Steve Pavlina
All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations.
Robert White
Write your goals in concrete and your plans in sand.
Anonymous
Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil deMille
If you don't have a consistent goal in life, you can't live it in a consistent way.
Marcus Aurelius
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Life is long. Don’t settle for plan B until you have tried plan A.
Drew Gilpin Faust
This is the parking space theory of life, which I have been sharing with students for years. Don’t park 10 blocks away from your destination because you think you’ll never find a closer space. Go to where you want to be. You can always circle back to where you have to be.
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