Top 96 Quotes About Goals And Achievement
#1. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.
Italo Calvino
#3. Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to success. It will bring you a calmness that will improve your attitude and your relationships with others.
Auliq Ice
#4. Success-minded people make a decision to achieve a goal and never have to make that decision again. They will be faced with a choice or some new circumstances to deal with, but the decision to achieve the goal is not in question. They have only to make adjustments along the way.
John Patrick Hickey
#5. So, you've failed many times at many things. That's okay! Learn, grow, and move forward. With the right attitude and mindset, you can learn a lot from failure. Pay attention and keep on striving! You've got this!
Stephanie Lahart
#6. I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing
I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams.
Dara Torres
#7. An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.
Oliver North
#8. I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action.
John Patrick Hickey
#9. Stop thinking of the past, and stop worrying about the future. Just win the day. Achieve the goals you set for every single day, and you'll rebuild your life in a few short years.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#10. Always remember that the lessons you learn in life are never meant just for you. They are like all our gifts, they are meant to be used and shared, never horded and hidden.
John Patrick Hickey
#11. The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly.
John Patrick Hickey
#12. Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine
Sunday Adelaja
#13. You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals
Sunday Adelaja
#14. The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process.
John Patrick Hickey
#15. The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream.
John Patrick Hickey
#16. We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential
Sunday Adelaja
#17. Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals
Spencer W. Kimball
#18. All great people had experienced dark times and moments of doubt but they find inner strength to overcome these difficulties. Persistent determination and enthusiasm fuel the hope within their spirit to press forward for the ultimate aim of achieving the goals they have set for themselves.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes "longer" is "never.
Honoree Corder
#20. Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing.
Abhijit Naskar
#21. The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops.
John Patrick Hickey
#22. Asking questions is not a matter of weakness or of being uninformed. In fact, people who ask a lot of questions tend to achieve more and learn more than those who do not.
John Patrick Hickey
#23. God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you.
John Patrick Hickey
#24. Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve.
John Patrick Hickey
#25. Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it.
John Patrick Hickey
#26. Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.
John Patrick Hickey
#27. If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you've got to get up and take action.
Toni Sorenson
#28. Books have the power to change and transform your life like few other things you have.
John Patrick Hickey
#29. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.
John Patrick Hickey
#30. It is amazing to see all that is going on around us and it is people of action who make it all happen.
John Patrick Hickey
#31. Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals.
It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment ...
Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals ...
Manoj Arora
#32. On your journey to achievement, you should never be without good positive materials and people who will encourage you, excite you and give you a reason to move forward.
John Patrick Hickey
#33. Through hard work and responsible approach you achieve your goals
Sunday Adelaja
#35. And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.
Willard Libby
#36. A goal that is set in your head is only a wish and holds as much form as smoke.
John Patrick Hickey
#37. The answer is in your dreams, the ones you dream while you're asleep and the ones you dream while you're awake.
Toni Sorenson
#38. Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.
George Lucas
#39. If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not
Sunday Adelaja
#40. Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.
John Patrick Hickey
#41. Writing out a goal allows us to see it in words. It creates a statement that does not change; it is something that we can go back to repeatedly for direction and clarity.
John Patrick Hickey
#43. Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself.
John Patrick Hickey
#44. To lead people or influence them, we must first align ourselves with them. By identifying with individuals or groups, we gain their confidence and can then lead them into a higher understanding or direct them to the achievement of lofty goals.
Wu Wei
#45. Whatever beginning goals you set for yourself, following through on them will build momentum and a sense of achievement and those small success will point the way to bigger ones
Pamela Glass Kelly
#46. To the extent people prioritize values and goals such as achievement, money, power, status and image, they tend to hold more negative attitudes towards the environment, are less likely to engage in positive environmental behaviors, and are more likely to use natural resources unsustainably,
Naomi Klein
#47. Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams
Sunday Adelaja
#49. My definition of success is not based on achieving the impossible, but rather surviving the probable. And with a threshold that horribly low, simple survival cannot help but become my highest aspiration.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#50. There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work.
John Patrick Hickey
#51. Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.
Mas Oyama
#52. A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path!
Rachael Bermingham
#53. Our head is there to facilitate our coming to an understanding of our purpose and setting the necessary goals to achieve that purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#54. 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
#55. Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.
John Patrick Hickey
#56. If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.
John Patrick Hickey
#57. I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you.
Eleanor Brownn
#58. Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.
Paulo Coelho
#59. Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
#61. Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will.
John Patrick Hickey
#62. Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers.
John Patrick Hickey
#63. Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.
Denzel Washington
#64. 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
#65. I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on.
Alan Shepard
#66. To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.
Roopleen
#67. A person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means.
W. Edwards Deming
#68. I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do.
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society
Sunday Adelaja
#70. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#71. You'll never get it if you can't see yourself having it.
Toni Sorenson
#72. 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
#74. The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.
John Carroll
#75. If your goals are ambitious and crazy enough, even failure will be a pretty good achievement.
Laszlo Bock
#76. Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things.
John Patrick Hickey
#77. I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Jack Canfield
#78. There is nothing better in the whole world than to know you have set a goal and achieved it.
John Patrick Hickey
#79. Excessive talking about our plans and dreams lessens our energy to do what is needed to achieve them.
John Patrick Hickey
#80. You must have goals for your life. Do not fear take a bold step to realize your goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. How we talk effects our lives in two very important ways. It shows how we think of others and how we think of ourselves. The fascinating thing is they always run together.
John Patrick Hickey
#82. Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children.
Jerry Pinkney
#83. The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the 'impossible' that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.
Charles Stanley
#85. What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Norman Vincent Peale
#86. Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it.
John Patrick Hickey
#87. I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#88. Thus, in achieving ones goals, one improves, develops and discovers his potentials
Sunday Adelaja
#89. Self -developments helps you to set and achieve goals
Sunday Adelaja
#90. Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.
Jordyn Wieber
#91. Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment
Charles Swindoll
#92. Making choices for the feelings they bring us & not what others think means we can find fulfilment and achievement from fulfilling our goals.
From the writers of Carolann's Pathway and Carolann's Progression, The Gateway to Understanding your Life's Ultimate Journey
Roland Bush-Cavell And Carolann Frankie
#93. We seek goals as if their achievement will grant magical happiness and unending fulfillment, but is that ever the case?
R.A. Salvatore
#94. It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
Fred Allen
#95. Each one of us has the power - and must develop the will - to be the hero of his own life. We believe in goals, in purposes, in achievement and in the joy of living.
Andrew Bernstein
#96. There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.
Arthur C. Clarke
