Motivation Goal Setting Quotes

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. ~ Seneca The Younger

Your identity & life passion/purpose in the context of your beliefs determine your vision, your vision determines your mission, your mission determines your KRAs, your KRAs determine your goals, your goals determine your thoughts, and your thoughts determine your life!" ~ gfp '42© ~ Gary Patton

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me. ~ Hugh Laurie

Goal setting is another integral part of achieving any dream. It is what takes a supernatural vision into the material realm where we can see it being accomplished. ~ Phil Pringle

Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Goal setting is good stewardship. Instead of letting things happen, goals help us make things happen. Instead of living by default, goals help us live by design. Instead of living out of memory, goals help us live out of imagination. ~ Mark Batterson

By the end of the date, your intentions should be clear. ~ Auliq Ice

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. ~ Les Brown

Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it's either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It's your choice ... will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? ... As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,'If you're going to bother setting a goal, aim high!' ... My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength. ~ Shawn Phillips

Instead of setting goals, seek defining moments. Those are the real tests, because you have to be willing to fail in a pressure situation in front of other people. ~ Hugh Jackman

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one. ~ Dov Davidoff

Act like you expect to get into the end zone. ~ Joe Paterno

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting. ~ Tamara Tunie

We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're anxious, upset, or frustrated, which dramatically reduce your ability to perform. ~ Andrew J. Bernstein

If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of. ~ Jack Canfield

Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. That is why goal setting is so vital to time management and developing focus. ~ Mani S. Sivasubramanian

I truly feel that if you understand yourself and set goals without the regulations and limitations others put on you, then nothing is impossible. ~ Christopher

Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting ~ Sunday Adelaja

Compromise works well in this world when you have shared goals. ~ Jim DeMint

As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go. ~ Zach Johnson

It's not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry. ~ Richie Norton

Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have. ~ John Patrick Hickey

to have goals without a plan and a time limit was as useless as having no goals at all. ~ Og Mandino

There is a universal truth that all successful people know: Nothing is ever done until you take action. ~ John Patrick Hickey

Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal. ~ James Rozoff

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. ~ Dennis Waitley

Decision-making takes care of goal-setting, but discipline also takes care of goal-getting. Decisions and discipline can't be separated; one is worthless without the other. ~ John C. Maxwell

It's not your end goal that gives life to your required actions, it's your required actions that give life to your end goal. ~ Anonymous

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action. ~ Zig Ziglar

Set goals not for the outcome itself, but for who you get to become in the process. ~ Jim Rohn

Sometimes we just have to suck it up and do what we have to do, until we are able to do what we want to do. ~ Mark W. Boyer

I love it. I love the challenge of it, working with kids every day, setting goals for myself and the program. I feel it was what I was meant to do. You remember your own experiences, and you want to do it for someone else. ~ Jennifer Rizzotti

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold; strong desires confound him. ~ Giacomo Casanova

Aim at the ground, you'll never miss. ~ Kristine Thomas

Never be paralyzed by fear, just by falling off a cliff ~ Josh Stern

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals. ~ Bryant McGill

To achieve in life is A hard story, But that shouldn't scare you. ~ Auliq Ice

I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level. ~ Craig Venter

There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To assume that I can even begin to chart a 'straight' path is probably the best way I can take myself 'straight' to the very place I don't want to go. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no eleventh hour with Cosmic Ordering, only the golden hour. ~ Stephen Richards

If you never get to your goal of setting goals, you will never get to anything. ~ Thomas F. Shubnell

I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue. ~ Brian Tracy

Success needs you to give yourself goals to aim for. ~ Auliq Ice

Perfection of effort is not required, by the way. It is the consistency of attempting to work these tools that brings the progress. It's like anything else. If I want to tone muscle, lifting a ten-pound weight a few times every day will move me toward my goal much quicker than hoisting a fifty-pound barbell once a week. Yes, it really is true: "Slow and steady wins the race." Just try a little, every day. You'll see. ~ Holly Mosier