Quotes About Specific Goals

#1. 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

#2. Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Nathaniel Branden

#3. In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Richard Yates

#4. The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

Malcolm X

#5. I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure.

Nicholas Hoult

#6. I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan.

Richard G. Scott

#7. By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.

Aberjhani

#8. Daily toll on your willpower reserves can be reduced by setting clear and specific goals, making decisions in advance (every decision costs willpower), minimizing distraction and anticipating problems (and how to deal with them).

William D. Edwards

#9. Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations.

Les Brown

#10. Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before going to bed.

Robert Cheeke

#11. Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it's the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence ... all directed at specific goals.

Gary Ryan

#12. The first fifteen minutes of your day should be spent planning your day. Set specific goals as to what you will accomplish. These clear goals will give you focal points on which you can govern your actions and provide your with a template you can live your day from.

Robin Sharma

#13. Age is just a number. When I started, I never worried about how long I was going to play. I had very specific goals, and that's what I really chased.

Leander Paes

#14. If you don't have specific goals written down for your life, you are mentally malnourished. Your mind was designed to be fed with goals just as your body was designed to be fed with food and water.

Tommy Newberry

#15. An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

Ken Wyatt

#16. One universally common trait in ultra successful people (including the ones with ADHD!) is the ability to consistently take action in a specific direction. This has three components: 1) Direction 2) SMART goals 3) Consistency

Grant Weherley

#17. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.

Connor Franta

#18. Dessert is my reward for having met my goals during the day. Really, dessert is an event rather than a specific item.

Jen Lancaster

#19. God has a specific plan for you

Sunday Adelaja

#20. My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

Meredith Brooks

#21. The creative process is probably closest to problem solving, but it differs from it in a number of ways. In problem solving the immediate goal is a specific one ... in the creative process there is no such clear goal.

Anne Roe

#22. I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age.

Ashley Ormon

#23. Goals are harmful unless they guide you to make specific behaviors easier to do. Don't focus your motivation on doing Behavior X. Instead, focus on making Behavior X easier to do.

B. J. Fogg

#24. I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

Zig Ziglar

#25. I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

Darren Criss

#26. When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

#27. Not just Dream ......have a specific deadline tagged to it ............A dream with a clear deadline is a Goal.

Monish Bhalla

#28. Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

Stephen Covey

#29. An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day.

Jack Canfield

#30. making sure that your goals are Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time bound.

Allison Perry

#31. I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

Serj Tankian

#32. A dream needs a powerful push to move into manifestation. You give it that power by making your dream as clear as possible in your mind, turning it into specific goal or goals, putting the goals into a time line and knowing what the culmination of that dream looks like.

Meera Lester

#33. My life hasn't been conventional and it hasn't been linear. I've had to make it up as I've gone along, which has taught me a lot. If you don't accept the obvious options that are laid out for you, it's up to you to work out where you're going and to create your own specific rules and goals.

Beth Ditto

#34. 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

#35. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Stephen Covey

#37. I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

Richard Brancatisano

#38. Never keep staring at the dreams you have on the paper ... Don't just live like a spectator. You have the power, you have the mine, you have the skills, you can dribble your obstacles to get your goals moving to the other

Israelmore Ayivor

#39. I always wanted to be something, but now I see I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin