Quotes About Set Goals

#1. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Tim Ferriss

#2. You are successful when you accomplish the goals and dreams you set for yourself.

Brenda Johnson Padgitt

#3. Anything that is within someone else's reach is also within yours. Set your goals no matter how impossible they may seem. Then focus on what is between you and that goal. And then, simply take out the obstacles as they come.

Liz Murray

#4. Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Drew Carey

#5. If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

Brian Tracy

#6. If the goal you've set for yourself has a 100 percent chance of success, then frankly you aren't aiming high enough.

Benny Lewis

#7. While we are here we should set goals and achieve them, make the best of things, make others feel good about themselves, and be happy with what we are and what we are doing.

Janet Evans

#8. We set no volume goals in our insurance business generally - and certainly not in reinsurance - as virtually any volume can be achieved if profitability standards are ignored.

Warren Buffett

#9. Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess

Haile Selassie

#10. Always set small, realistic goals that you know you can achieve first. But don't give up on the bigger ones that may seem too far from your reach.

W.D. Lady

#11. Money and ownership alone aren't enough. Set high goals, encourage competition, and then keep score.

Sam Walton

#12. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Fitzhugh Dodson

#13. Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Chris Evert

#14. I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon.

Paula Radcliffe

#15. You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

Hillary Clinton

#16. The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.

F. Paul Wilson

#17. Set your expectations and goals so high that people think they're impossible, that's when you know you set them too low.

Behdad Sami

#18. Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Lee Haney

#19. Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

Larry Page

#20. The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it's about enjoying a damn day on the movie set ... I live in a complete state of grace.

Peter Weller

#21. Our goals were and are to be sure that we set up DC Entertainment to be more integrated and more cooperative within DC as well as in Warner Bros.

Diane Nelson

#22. I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.

Sheryl Crow

#23. Being passionately curious about things give us the desire to want to learn, to explore and to seek opportunities to set goals and accomplish great things. It allows us to dream.

Ellen J. Barrier

#24. It's is always nice to be respected as a footballer. I am going to go out and enjoy the game and if I can set one or two goals up then so be it - I would love to.

David Beckham

#25. Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Donald Rumsfeld

#26. I am ambitious. I set goals; not because I am ungrateful for what I have, but because I am happy with who I am. I enjoy the experience of rising above my perceived limitations and discovering new levels of my capabilities.

Steve Maraboli

#27. Do not waste time idling or thinking after you have set your goals

Miyamoto Musashi

#28. I think that in order to get better as an athlete and to see whatever kind of results you're after, you have to make goals. Whether you write them down or tell someone about them, it's important to set goals for yourself in order to achieve any kind of success.

Abby Wambach

#29. I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

Mario Andretti

#30. Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.

Joseph Nye

#31. The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

Denis Waitley

#32. Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

Stephen Richards

#33. My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

Hailee Steinfeld

#34. Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

Jim Rohn

#35. When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of light into a burning point. Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive

Ezra Taft Benson

#36. Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Denis Waitley

#37. Your life is enriched with meaning when allow yourself to become inspired, set goals, and charge after them with passion.

Julie Connor

#38. 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

#39. The soaps are great training. You can form good habits - or you can form bad habits. You have to set your goals. If you're not clear on what you want, you can slip into bad habits. It can become a comfortable place, and you don't grow.

Mary Page Keller

#40. I learned how to believe in myself. Learned how to set goals, you know, self help books man. I just read every single one I can get a hold of, and I still do.

Drew Carey

#41. If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Les Brown

#42. When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.

Zig Ziglar

#43. When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

Burl Ives

#44. Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

Yogi Berra

#45. Always set high goals for your team.

Sunday Adelaja

#46. Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them.

Jim Rohn

#47. Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.

Kevin Madden

#48. The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.

Benson Henderson

#49. We have to be diligent in serving God and in fulfilling the task set before us by Him

Sunday Adelaja

#50. The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!

Andy Albright

#51. You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

Brian Tracy

#52. What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself.

Grete Waitz

#53. I try not to have personal goals. Personal numbers is a mind-set. The only numbers I care about are in the win column.

Troy Glaus

#54. Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else.

Carson V. Heady

#55. He continued with a laugh, "And for highly motivated people, there are few more frustrating situations than realizing that the goals you've set will require a shift in the basic laws of time and space.

Eric C. Sinoway

#56. We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.

Jess Lair

#57. Each day brings a fresh opportunity for you to set the standard of how dedicated and committed you are to your needs, wants, goals, and relationships.

Steve Maraboli

#58. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

Joanne Whalley

#59. Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#60. The will, we have, is a very strong force. If we set our minds to get to a goal and focus intensely on it, it's hard for anything to get in the way.

Ufuoma Apoki

#61. Everyone needs peace of mind, inner-happiness and joyful relationships but most people don't prioritize these. Do you set goals or invest in learning to achieve these?
If you focus only on career, social and financial goals then you will never be fulfilled or fully successful!

Maddy Malhotra

#62. When you set more goals, try more things, engage in more activities, and explore more opportunities, your probabilities of success increase dramatically.

Brian Tracy

#63. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path

Gino Norris

#64. I've come to realize that when people are not reaching their highest potential or whatever goals they set out for themselves, they're more inclined when they're going through pain. When they're going through a negative situation. They're more inclined to hear me than when they're doing well.

Eric Thomas

#65. When leadership set the goals by themselves, they are not goals, they are quotas.

Dave Ramsey

#66. Set emergency goals to achieve the main ones. In this way, you won't abandon your resolutions and even failures will make you stronger.

Victoria Herocten

#67. It is exactly the unattainability, which differentiates a dream from a goal: Goals are reachable, when you fight for them. Dreams are not. Athletes shouldn't dream, but set goals for themselves and fight for them.

Fabian Cancellara

#68. You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.

Rafael Palmeiro

#69. I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

Carrie Brownstein

#70. I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

John Wooden

#71. Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Don Ward

#72. Charlene says:I hope I can be a star. I want to be able to set goals so I know where I'm going. It feels like I've been sort of floating around without being sure where I'd end up because I haven't figured out what I'd really like to do.

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne

#73. I don't think I ever set my goals that high. As a kid growing up I just wanted an opportunity to race and to be able to make a living doing it. It just came together.

Larry Dixon

#74. I will set big goals for this country as president - some so large that the technology to reach them does not yet exist.""I will recruit new teachers and make new investments in rural schools, we'll connect all of America to 21st century technology and telecommunications.

Barack Obama

#75. Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance.

Robin S. Sharma

#76. I had no idea, but I realized that probably thirty to forty percent of my brainpower was taken up with the questions that I couldn't answer- because I had no direction. When I got clear on exactly where I wanted to go, and set the goals to get there, my mind calmed down.

Chip Wilson

#77. There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#78. If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.

Yogi Berra

#79. If I want to achieve the goals I've set, I've got to be in tip-top shape.

Michael Phelps

#80. Your success can't be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.

Rhondra O. Willis

#81. Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once.

Mark Victor Hansen

#82. I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

Sheri McCoy

#83. Set small goals along the way and don't be overwhelmed by the process.

Kara Goucher

#84. I've set and met my career goals and I'm having tremendous professional success. But it's cost me my personal and family life. I don't know my wife and children anymore. I'm not even sure I know myself and what's really important to me. I've had to ask myself - is it worth it?

Stephen R. Covey

#85. The only thing that lives beyond the grave is the wake you have created by the way you have lived your life; the goals you have set; the distance away from the normal you dared to tread.

Gerry Lindgren

#86. A person becomes a real individual when he has set and accurately defined his goal

Sunday Adelaja

#87. With patience, you will finish the race set before you

Sunday Adelaja

#88. I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals

Lance Armstrong

#89. I pride myself on being consistent. So, yes, it definitely means something, even though I don't set goals.

Trevor Hoffman

#90. We do not need to have an agreed set of goals before we do something ambitious!

Freeman Dyson

#91. Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.

Chuck Norris

#92. Any work you do should be a step on the road towards reaching the purpose God has set for your life.

Sunday Adelaja

#93. Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

Claire Carver-Dias

#94. Those who don't set goals in life end up being controlled by those who do.

Paul Sloane

#95. I keep a notebook of the things I need to get done in a day, week, month along with my overarching goals. Whenever I have a couple moments on set or on a plane, I work on ticking off my to-do list.

Karlie Kloss

#96. Hello Year 2017
I welcome you with open heart. Once again I'm ready to take another step towards my dreams, I'm willing to learn and I'm willing to make an effort to achieve my set goals in Jesus name.

Euginia Herlihy

#97. Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Madonna Ciccone

#98. I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

Taylor Lautner

#99. Set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there.

Bo Jackson

#100. The goals you don't set reveal the dreams you don't do.

Robin Sharma