Top 100 Quotes About Goal Setting
#1. Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences
Sunday Adelaja
#2. 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
#3. Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.
Joseph M. Juran
#4. On ambition, goal setting and competition - it doesn't matter if you lose, but you can't win if you don't play the game.
Aaron Lauritsen
#5. Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.
Bob Proctor
#6. The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've
already achieved them.
Denis Waitley
#7. The reward for goal-setting is that as you achieve each goal, you feel in charge of your own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases and it becomes easier to remain motivated. So set those high goals and make clear plans for their execution.
Archibald Marwizi
#8. All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
#9. 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
#10. I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.
Dara Torres
#11. By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32
Alfie Kohn
#12. Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
Nido R. Qubein
#13. Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.
Lisa Leslie
#14. Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting
Sunday Adelaja
#15. 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
#16. Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves.
Denis Waitley
#17. Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.
Zach Johnson
#18. I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
Abigail Johnson
#19. I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.
Michael Jordan
#20. The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.
Wayne Dyer
#21. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.
JohnA Passaro
#23. Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal. From The Biology of Success.
Robert Arnot
#24. Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."
Wayne Dyer
#25. Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable
John Kennedy Akotia
#26. Coaching offers customized, one-on-one support to assist individuals in reaching their goals. The process involves goal setting, identifying obstacles, brainstorming solutions and creating a workable action plan.
Barbara Bissonnette
#27. An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#28. Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting.
Paul J. Meyer
#29. Set goals that are well balanced-not too many nor too few, and not too high nor too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.
M. Russell Ballard
#30. Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.
Neal A. Maxwell
#31. I don't really do indulgences. I'm more interested in discipline, goal setting, and performance.
Jessica Bird
#32. Goal setting is commonsense; you don't waste fuel traveling for miles to an imaginary destination.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality
Abel Aganbegyan
#36. The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal.
Francie Larrieu Smith
#37. 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
#38. The direction in which we are moving is more important than where we are at the moment. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.
Marvin J. Ashton
#39. Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.
Jim Rohn
#41. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
Matt Haig
#42. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
Auliq Ice
#44. A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things!
Donna McGoff
#45. Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs.
John Patrick Hickey
#46. You can write and visualize goals all you want, but if you do not take action, your goals will never become a reality. To obtain a goal you have never before achieved will require tasks you have never before done.
Cameron C. Taylor
#47. 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
#48. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#49. Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.
James Rozoff
#50. You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.
Rob Liano
#52. If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
Ben Carson
#53. It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#55. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
Gino Norris
#56. Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry
#57. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.
Ronaldinho
#60. Success-minded people tend to be successful, confident, and friendly because they act successful, confident and friendly. People feel comfortable around positive people because positive people feel comfortable with themselves.
John Patrick Hickey
#61. Setting goals is the first important step in achieving success in an activity. It's a reminder of what you are working towards.
Peter Vanderkaay
#63. I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.
Phil Keoghan
#64. Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers.
John Patrick Hickey
#65. The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
Jude Bijou
#66. I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
Carson McCullers
#67. If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.
Myron Tribus
#68. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
#69. For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.
C. Wagner
#70. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
David Brooks
#71. Success needs you to give yourself goals to aim for.
Auliq Ice
#72. I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet.
Auliq Ice
#73. If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.
John Patrick Hickey
#74. 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
#75. There is no deadline when it comes to setting a goal for yourself !!!
Tawana Beecham
#76. To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#77. Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#78. If you are not getting the results you want change your technique
Valarie Rocha
#79. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path
Gino Norris
#80. People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.
Mark W. Boyer
#81. Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.
John Feinstein
#82. Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.
John Patrick Hickey
#83. 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
#84. My decisions determine my destination long before I ever get there. And once I do get there, I suddenly realize this is not the destination I had in mind because what I had in mind was the fantasy that my denial had created verses the reality my choices crafted.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#85. Be prepared to say "no" to some things. That is the key. When you say "yes" to every invitation, event and call, you will come back to meet you plans on the paper in the same state you left them.
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. Life will always have a different plan for you. If you don't give up, you will eventually get to your destination. But towards the end of your life, you may look back and realize that it was never really about the destination; it was the journey that counted.
King Samuel Benson
#87. Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them.
Erin Kissane
#88. We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose.
Ellen J. Barrier
#89. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
#90. Large bodies of goal achievement research encourage written goals for good reason. When we write down our goals, we transform what we imagine into reality.
Gina Greenlee
#91. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#92. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#93. Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.
Auliq Ice
#94. There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#95. Allow your past achievements to provide fuel for your current goals.
Josh Hinds
#96. When we actually refer to God's blueprint, we gladly work in fascinated conjunction with it, suddenly realizing that any other action outside of that blueprint is foolhardiness and lunacy of the worst sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#98. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#100. There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work.
John Patrick Hickey
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