Top 100 Quotes About Setting Goals: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Setting Goals

#1. I enjoy hard work; I love setting goals and achieving them.

#2. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

#3. The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

Tony Robbins

#4. Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

Stephen Covey

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.

Quentin Bryce

#8. Setting goals takes desire, but completing them takes determination

Ron Hawks

#9. I'm all for setting goals and making plans for the lives we want to become a reality. I love vision statements and life maps, but I have also discovered the power of a woman who does just one thing.

Nicki Koziarz

#10. 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

#11. Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

Greg Kinnear

#12. 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

#13. I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#14. Setting goals is one of the most important things you can do to guarantee your personal, professional and financial success. Goals are like a road map to your target destination. Each goal accomplished is another mile behind you on the way to where you want to be.

Mark Victor Hansen

#15. Rather than setting goals for the number of yes's you are planning to get each week, you set goals for the number of no's you're going to collect.

Richard Fenton

#16. It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

Christine Lavin

#17. You must avoid blindness of mind by setting goals ... I have long contended that the person who sets goals and who strives to attain such is the master of his own fate.

Carlos E. Asay

#18. The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

Jim Rohn

#19. I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

Dara Torres

#20. There's nothing wrong with setting goals, but it doesn't mean a thing if you don't pay attention to the day-to-day details.

Don Shula

#21. To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

Arnold Palmer

#22. hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities.

Brene Brown

#23. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Tony Robbins

#24. I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life's many disappointments.

Andrew Levkoff

#25. If you can become more motivated, more focused, better at setting goals and making good decisions, then you're a long way down the path to becoming more productive.

Charles Duhigg

#26. Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#27. 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

#28. The problem with setting goals is that they can be limiting. Perhaps we're asking for something good when God's will is that we be given something great.

Marianne Williamson

#29. Setting goals that have already been achieved is a cop-out.

Gerry Lindgren

#30. And what is success? Success is setting goals, making a definite plan and setting out on the journey to accomplish that plan without allowing anything to stop you. Success is finding every facet of yourself and polishing it till it shines

Chloe Thurlow

#31. In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

Wang Jianlin

#32. Setting goals is good to do, to make your dreams come true for you.

Julie Hebert

#33. I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.

Kiana Tom

#34. People with victim mentality, consider actions such as making decisions, setting goals and achieving them to be nothing more than formidable obstacles

Sunday Adelaja

#35. If you never get to your goal of setting goals, you will never get to anything.

Thomas F. Shubnell

#36. The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.

T. Harv Eker

#37. Sometimes we get off course, desiring things or setting goals that will lead to no good end. But if our desire is in the right place, loving Jesus and loving others, there is no telling where Jesus can take us.

Richard Foth

#38. 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

#39. I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#40. I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

Peter Shilton

#41. Not setting goals and objectives for a relationship is like a ship setting sail for the land of nowhere in particular.

Darrell Roberts

#42. 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

#43. I'm big on setting goals, but I also think that if you have too many lofty ambitions and set goals for everything, you can sabotage your efforts by overextending your brain.

Jean Chatzky

#44. The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.

Summer Sanders

#45. It's not an accident that musicians become musicians and engineers become engineers: it's what they're born to do. If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.

Jack Canfield

#46. Recipe for a dissatisfied adulthood is setting goals that are especially difficult to attain. Measured by life satisfaction 20 years later, the least promising goal that a young person could have was becoming accomplished in a performing art.

Daniel Kahneman

#47. Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level - neither too low nor too high. A good goal should be lofty enough to inspire hard work, yet realistic enough to provide solid hope of attainment.

Greg Norman

#48. The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

Sarah Manguso

#49. The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to achieving your dreams.

Og Mandino

#50. Pretending that something doesn't exist if it's hard to quantify leads to faulty models. You've already seen the system trap that comes from setting goals around what is easily measured, rather than around what is important. So

Donella H. Meadows

#51. It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.

Amber Frey

#52. Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

Zig Ziglar

#53. Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

Joan

#54. Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.

Chris Sharma

#55. A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

Stedman Graham

#56. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.

Matt Haig

#57. 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

#58. A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things!

Donna McGoff

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.

John Patrick Hickey

#62. Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.

James Rozoff

#63. You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.

Rob Liano

#64. As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

Daniela Hantuchova

#65. Success-minded people know that nothing is without a reason.

John Patrick Hickey

#66. 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

#67. A purposeless and goalless life is meaningless

Sunday Adelaja

#68. As a group, we want to follow good and green strategy. Setting targets is one element of that. The second part is to design products which meet environmental goals.

Jamshyd Godrej

#69. The greatest power in the world is choice.

John Patrick Hickey

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. 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

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. I've tried to approach environmentalism the same way I do my climbing: by setting small, concrete goals that build on each other.

Alex Honnold

#76. One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

Paul Parker

#77. Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers.

John Patrick Hickey

#78. 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

#79. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.

John Patrick Hickey

#80. For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

C. Wagner

#81. 'Shake It Up' definitely teaches kids about the importance of reaching for your dreams and setting high goals. It also teaches great lessons about friendship and family.

Zendaya

#82. Success needs you to give yourself goals to aim for.

Auliq Ice

#83. 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

#84. If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.

John Patrick Hickey

#85. There is no deadline when it comes to setting a goal for yourself !!!

Tawana Beecham

#86. To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

Gino Norris

#89. Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.

John Patrick Hickey

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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