Quotes About Writing Your Goals

#1. Characters who simply have goals opposed by others do not create the effects of a story.

Bill Johnson

#2. Every paragraph should accomplish two goals: advance the story, and develop your characters as complex human beings.

Nancy Kress

#3. Today I will find something beautiful.
Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.
The dove resting near the lemon buds.
Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.
Smiling on me.
"Creating" in BREATHE IN

Eileen Granfors

#4. Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

Brian Tracy

#5. The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.

Mark W. Boyer

#6. I won't stop writing until I am known as the Kurt Cobain of literature!

Christina Westover

#7. When you write a goal down your subconscious brain begins to more actively think about bringing into your life the people, resources and knowledge you need to achieve your goals.

Ryan Allis

#8. Unsuccessful people carry their goals around in their head like marbles rattling around in a can, and we say a goal that is not in writing is merely a fantasy.

Darren Hardy

#9. 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

#10. One of my biggest goals, especially with writing YA novels, is just to have people enjoy reading.

Lauren Conrad

#11. A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down.

Bryant McGill

#12. I truly believe that if you put your goals in writing, speak them out loud and work for them, they will happen.

Ciara

#13. Staying healthy through movement and eating well gives you tons of energy and helps mold the skills that allow you to achieve goals from playing soccer to doing a tough homework assignment to writing a song.

Sabrina Bryan

#14. There's no scientific definition. A hymn ... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly.

Keith Getty

#15. Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Jack Canfield

#16. 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

#17. Goals are dreams with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

#18. Without visions and written goals, what direction are we going to head?

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.

T.F. Hodge

#20. Decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

Brian Tracy

#21. I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.

Scott Cohen

#22. My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions.

Tracie Peterson

#23. Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Charlotte Eriksson

#24. Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Joyce Carol Oates

#25. There's only one good reason to be a writer-we can't help it! We'd all like to be rich, famous and successful, but if those are our goals, we're off on a wrong foot ... I just wanted to earn enough money so I could work at home on my writing.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#26. Writing a list of your goals with a deadline is vastly important. For how does a captain know where to go without an outlined map?

Justin Perry

#27. Teaching methods are often inadequate for the goals faculties are trying to achieve. Important courses such as expository writing and foreign languages are frequently taught by untrained graduate students and underpaid adjunct teachers.

Derek Bok

#28. Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

Robin S. Sharma

#29. Remember if you write, write, write, you can never be wrong.
Stephanie Skeem Author of Flotsam

Stephanie Skeem

#30. In some ways the goals of teaching and writing are the same. You hope to connect to someone else, to make them care about what you care about. So that the things which matter, the things that matter to you, matter to them.

P.F. Kluge

#31. I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.

Kate Atkinson

#32. I stare out the window and reflect on the similarity between writing and saving a life and the inevitable failure of one's imagination and one's goals and ambitions to create a character or a life worth saving.

Miriam Toews

#33. 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

#34. 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,

#35. A young pianist & composer who has demonstrated an exceptional creativity, in both his playing & his writing, as well as showing us all, his very strong commitment & motivation to aim for high musical goals. Talent like his is rare.

Steve Lacy

#36. Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Charlotte Eriksson

#37. Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it - ink it!

Michael Korda

#38. 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

#39. Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

Jason Reeves

#40. One of the most important thing is that you need to write down your goals and plans

Sunday Adelaja

#41. One of Cranmer's goals in writing and revising the Book of Common Prayer was to get Scripture into the ears of the people so that their hearts might be turned to God and their lives transformed by his love. Cranmer

Michael Jensen

#42. My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.

Michael Hersch

#43. While every chapter should have goals to further the plot and delve our readers deeper into our world, there must be one goal above all else: Emotional Impact.

A.J. Flowers

#44. All you need to know about plotting is twofold. 1. Give your characters goals. 2. Don't let them reach those goals.

J.A. Konrath

#45. Writing out your goals is the first action in a chain of many on the road to achievement.

John Patrick Hickey

#46. Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.

Shaun Hick

#47. 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

#48. If we fulfill our responsibility to the Constitution, the Supreme Court will be filled with superior legal minds who will pursue the one agenda that our founding fathers intended in writing the Constitution: justice, rather than political or personal goals.

Chuck Grassley

#49. By writing out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important

Robin S. Sharma

#50. Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

Brian Tracy

#51. A person who doesn't have a structured way of writing their goals will experience disorder, even in the comfort zone.

Onyi Anyado

#52. Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

Ann Marie Aguilar

#53. A goal is a written plan.
Write your dreams and visions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#54. When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work.

Mark Victor Hansen

#55. A lot of people have already been impacted by the Life Cube Project and the principles behind it. They write to me and post on social media all the time, about their dreams coming true after writing them down, or how writing down their goals resonated with them.

Scott Cohen

#56. Study with purpose, both in church and in school. Write down your goals and what you plan to do to achieve them. Aim high, for you are capable ...

Thomas S. Monson

#57. In love madly,
traveling though the
life-raft's unraveling
in a beautiful tragedy,
but gladly i'm still
paddling through
the ocean
of your
anatomy.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#58. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Tony Robbins

#59. When you imagine and clearly articulate your goals in writing, you access the creative energy of your right brain. Imagination and creativity allow you to find solutions to problems that were not previously available to you and give your left brain an opportunity to be receptive to new ideas.

Julie Connor

#60. I say you ought to write out 10 outrageous goals that are bigger than you because your life isn't meaningful or important unless you're on purpose about something way bigger than you are.

Mark Victor Hansen

#61. Every writer should know their target. Aim for the heart ~ hit that and all which follows is sheer ecstasy.

Muse

#62. Ever since I could read, I've wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don't think this is worth writing about. But this book isn't for you. It's for me.

Daniel Willey