Goals
- Acquire purpose, rather than possessions. Fulfillment is not found through the achievement of goals.--Michael Rawls
- Act like you expect to get into the end zone.--Joe Paterno (New York Times)
- Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.--J. Hawkes
- As you attempt to make big differences, remember to appreciate the small differences. And remember that you don't always have to reach the goal you set in order to make a difference.--Win Borden
- An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.--Steve Maraboli (Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience)
- Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by one-thousand percent!--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- A commitment without a goal is like a trip without a map: odds are you won’t get where you want to be.--Mark Sanborn ( Fred 2.0)
- Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.--Brian Tracy (Your Achievement Ezine - Issue No. 138)
- Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - July 1, 2003)
- A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell
- Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.--Mary Lou Retton
- The easiest way to set goals is to answer the following questions: What is it I want to achieve? When do I want to achieve it? Where am I today and what action do I need to take to achieve my goal?--Catherine Pulsifer ("Words of Wisdom")
- Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.--Danielle Fotopoulos
- Even if you can't just snap your fingers and make a dream come true, you can travel in the direction of your dream, every single day and you can shorten the distance between the two of you.--Douglas Pagels
- Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.--Brian Tracy
- First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.--Epictetus (Discources)
- Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star.--Willis Reed
- Goal begins with "GO."--Bil Keane
- 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
- A goal properly set is halfway reached.--Zig Ziglar
- Goals are dreams with deadlines.--Diana Scharf Hunt
- Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped.--O. Carl Simonton
- Goals are the barriers that limit our ability to reach our true potential.--David V. Ellison
- Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve.--Denis Waitley
- Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.--Mary Catherine Bateson (Composing a Life)
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.--Mary Kay Ash
- The Great Society is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods.--Lyndon Johnson (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- The greater 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
- If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.--Seneca
- If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.--Dan Dierdorf
- If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?--Basil S. Walsh
- If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.--Laurence Johnston Peter
- If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.--Greg McKeown
- If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.--Brian Tracy
- If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.--Zig Ziglar
- An ignorance of means may minister
To greatness, but an ignorance of aims
Make it impossible to be great at all.--Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Casa Guidi Windows)
- In my practice as a psychiatrist, I have found that helping people to develop personal goals has proven to be the most effective way to help them cope with problems. Observing that lives of people who have mastered adversity, I have noticed that they have established goals and sought with all their effort to achieve them. From the moment they decided to concentrate all their energies on a specific objective, they begun to surmount the most difficult odds.--Ari Kiev
- In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.--Marshal Ferdinand Foch
- The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.--Ben Stein
- It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.--Brian Tracy
- It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.--Helen Keller
- It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.--Ursula K. LeGuin
- It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.--Og Mandino
- It must be born in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.--Benjamin E. Mays
- It must be born in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity to not dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure but low aim is sin!--Helmut Schmidt
- It takes a little courage, and a little self-control. And some grim determination, If you want to reach the goal. It takes a deal of striving, and a firm and stern-set chin. No matter what the battle, If you really want to win. There's no easy path to glory, There's no road to fame. Life, however we may view it, Is no simple parlor game; But it's prizes call for fighting, For endurance and for grit; For a rugged disposition and don't know when to quit.--Anonymous
- It's hard to stay committed...to stay in touch with the goal without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal, the world.--Nancy Hogshead
- Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.--Elbert Hubbard
- Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.--Ernestine Schumann-Heink
- Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.--Les Brown
- A major part of successful living lies in the ability to put first things first. Indeed the reason most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.--Robert J. McKain
- The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.--Jim Rohn
- The more you have to live for, the less you need to live on. Those who make acquisition their goal never have enough.--Sydney Harris
- The most important thing about having goals is having one.--Geoffrey F. Abert
- Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement – and we will make the goal.-–Jerome Fleishman
- Most of us think having a list of priorities is a sign of a motivated, serious person. But there is one essential flaw in this perspective. We are not guaranteed a future; and even if we were we could not live in it. All we have is now.--George Lawrence-Ell (The Invisible Clock)
- My goal in life is not to get rich, but to BE RICH – in faith, marriage, family and ministry.-–Wayne Cordeiro (Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion)
- My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.--Stephen Hawking (Washington Post 4/15/88)
- No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.--Bette Davis
- No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.--Michel de Montaigne
- Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.--Nido Qubein
- Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.--Thomas Jefferson
- Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.--Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein)
- One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.--Stephen A. Brennan
- People often confuse "goal" and "purpose." A goal is something tangible a purpose is a direction. A goal can be achieved a purpose is fulfilled in each moment. We can set ad achieve many goals a purpose remains constant for life.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
- People who say life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile... Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project... Always have something ahead of you to "look forward to"--to work for and to hope for.--Maxwell Maltz
- Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.--Rabindranath Tagore
- Setting goals provides man with an excuse to stop before he has exhausted all efforts to reach his maximum potential.--David V. Ellison
- She saw objectives, not obstacles.--Wallace Stegner (Crossing To Safety)
- Some lives drift here and there like reeds in a stream, depending on changing currents for their activity. Others are like swimmers knowing the depth of the water. Each stroke helps them onward to a definite objective.--Margaret Sanger
- Sometimes in life we can focus exclusively on ends and underestimate the value of means. ... But even if we fail to attain our goal, the process of trying to get there can in itself be redemptive.--Tim Stanley ("Thought for the Day," March 1, 2016)
- Sometimes we get so busy rowing our boat, we don’t take time to stop and see where we are going … or what we are becoming.--Wayne Cordeiro (Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion)
- A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.--Eileen Caddy
- Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.--David Joseph Schwartz
- The timid and fearful first failures dismay,
but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day.
He values his failures as lessons that teach
The one way to get to the goal he would reach.--Edgar A. Guest
- To realize our goals, we must first imagine them fully.--Siew Hwa Beh
- The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - July 1, 2003)
- The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.--Arnold J. Toynbee (A Study of History)
- We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.--Chuck Palahniuk
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.--Henry David Thoreau
- What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.--Zig Zigler
- Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.--Apocrypha - Ecclesiasticus
- When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.--Greg Anderson (The 22 Non-Negotiable Laws of Wellness)
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.--Les Brown
- You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.--Percy H. Johnson
- You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind - not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement - but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time.--William E. Holler
- You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.--Kathy Seligman
You can't reach your goals if you haven't set any--Karen's addition
- You concentrate on getting your first target and then you fix your concentration on your next goal. Never spread yourself thin. A magnifying glass will not start a fire until it remains in one spot continuously for a certain length of time. If it is constantly moved from spot to spot, nothing will get warmed up, much less start a fire.--Scott Alexander (Rhinoceros Success)
- You must know for which harbor you are headed if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.--Seneca
- 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 (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- You've got to think about "big things" while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.--Alvin Toffler
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