Set A Goal Quotes

#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. Set a goal when you're ready for it, make a plan, and stick with it.

Auliq Ice

#3. Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it.

Brian Tracy

#4. Set a master goal for your running and for your life.

Gerry Lindgren

#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. The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

Stephen Covey

#8. If you want to be happy, set yourself a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes. Happiness is within you. It comes from doing some certain thing into which you can put all your thought and energy. If you want to be happy, get enthusiastic about something.

Dale Carnegie

#9. Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.

Anonymous

#10. Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

George Gaylord Simpson

#11. Let's have a life with momentum and action. Set a goal for every day and every season.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Well, the truth is, we hope that this book will do just that. I like to think of it as idiot encouragement. Take a chance in life. Set a goal for yourself and make it happen.

Patrick Schulte

#13. In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.

Benjamin Zander

#14. I'm not much of a planner. I set a goal and there really is nothing else ... no plan B.

Eddie Alvarez

#15. When I came back on the rink in 2012, I set a goal of wrapping up my career well rather than just winning medals. I'm not preparing for any special skills for Sochi because I don't feel like they are necessary.

Kim Yuna

#16. 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

#17. There is no authentic goal you can set for yourself that can't be reached, no dream that can't be realized. It's just a matter of learning HOW to achieve what you want.

Jillian Michaels

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. To get to a destination, you have to know the address. To find your purpose in life, you must set a goal, draw a map, and start the journey.

Debasish Mridha

#21. 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

#22. Could a government dare to set out with happiness as its goal? Now that there are accepted scientific proofs, it would be easy to audit the progress of national happiness annually, just as we monitor money and GDP.

Polly Toynbee

#23. 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

#24. When you set a goal, write it down and then it's like making a promise to yourself.

Tony DiCicco

#25. Know what you want and try to go beyond your own expectations....set a very high goal, one that will be difficult to achieve. Because that is an artist's mission: to go beyond one's limits. An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

Paulo Coelho

#26. When I got cut from the varsity team as a sophomore in high school, I learned something. I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again. I never wanted to have that taste in my mouth, that hole in my stomach. So I set a goal of becoming a starter on the varsity.

Michael Jordan

#27. Set yourself a goal so difficult that death will seem like a welcome reprieve.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable?

Tom Hunter

#33. The compartmentalization of His voice to set times we commune with Him is a dangerous place to live. Is it our goal to spend the slightest amount of time possible with the Lord and still be in relationship with Him?

Eric Samuel Timm

#34. When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.

Michael Jordan

#35. You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming.

Jim Rohn

#36. If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.

Andrew Carnegie

#37. It is easy to criticize, particularly in a political season. But to lead is something altogether different. The leader must live in the real world of the price that might be paid for the goal that has been set.

Norm Coleman

#38. In life, nothing happens by accident. Set a goal, believe in it and go all-in to achieve it.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#39. We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American ... we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

William J. Clinton

#40. A pointless mind is a careful mind.when you're pointless, you don't know which one is your true goal. It takes time to process what is good and what's not. And when it is all set, it means success is achieved.

Christian Thogolith

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

Mark Victor Hansen

#42. I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

Beyonce Knowles

#43. When I circumnavigated the globe the outcome didn't really matter, it was about a goal I'd set myself, but sustainability is part of all our lives

Ellen MacArthur

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

Sunday Adelaja

#45. Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Eileen Caddy

#46. 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

#47. Whatever your passion in life is; always set a goal for yourself and never allow the guy next door to hold you back from achieving it".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#48. Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

Harvey MacKay

#49. 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

#50. If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.

Geoff Colvin

#51. No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

Daniel Cormier

#52. To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

J. Jack Halberstam

#53. A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently

Sunday Adelaja

#54. During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.

Francois Hollande

#55. Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

Bill Toomey

#56. When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our lives and the lives of others by attempting to reach it.

Lawren Leo

#57. Set a goal so big that if you achieved it, it would blow your mind.

Rhonda Byrne

#58. I'm a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there's nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a goal that I don't have control over achieving.

Casey James

#59. Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal.

John Poindexter

#60. Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#61. Set goals that are achievable. Bring about meaningful change one step at a time. Raising awareness is not enough.

Henry Spira

#62. My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.

Wes Craven

#63. You'll fail at a 100% of the goals you don't set.

Mark Victor Hansen

#64. Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.

Victoria Addino

#65. There are those dreamers who make excuses for why they aren't passionate about or creating anything to match their desires and then there's those dreamers who stay up late just to finish a goal that will get them up the next set of stairs. We all have dreams but not everyone makes it a reality.

Nikki Rowe

#66. You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

Steve Garvey

#67. You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself.

Don Shula

#68. A lot of times when I'm in the gym, I might not have that energy but I realize what I'm doing it for and it gives me the strength to do one more extra rep, to do one more set or to push even harder, and to not let whatever obstacle is in front of me stop me from reaching my goal.

Dwight Howard

#69. We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

Sheryl Sandberg

#70. You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.

C.S. Lewis

#71. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

Viktor E. Frankl

#72. Each morning set out to accomplish a goal with your kiddos and at the end of the day the reward is knowing your babes were invested in and well-loved and nurtured. Could that be reward enough?

Sarah Mae

#73. Set a goal, measure it, change if you need to, keep going after the goal,

Rick Scott

#74. To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.

Idowu Koyenikan

#75. A third place to build the Great Society is in the classrooms of America. There your children's lives will be shaped. Our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the farthest reaches of thought and imagination. We are still far from that goal.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#76. Set a goal to become a millionaire for what it makes of you to achieve it. Do it for the skills you have to learn and the person you have to become.

Jim Rohn

#77. I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.

Maya Rudolph

#78. For every guy, there is an opportunity to be a lot better than he thought he could be. We can't all be the star of the team, but we can be a star in our life. That's where you set your goal.

Sylvester Stallone

#79. Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

Herb Brooks

#80. I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.

Bella Hadid

#81. In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#82. Make a plan. Set attainable goals. Reward each goal. Don't give up if things don't go perfect.

Carian Cole

#83. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Napoleon Hill

#84. Be aware that how you feel has a direct impact on your thinking process. When we set standards for ourselves they seem objective, but standards and goal-setting are totally subjective and personal. From The Biology of Success.

Robert Arnot

#85. We're going to face problems on a day to day basis and there's probably going to be that one obstacle that you think oh I'm not going to be able to get through it but just remember if you set your mind to achieve a goal, then you can do it.

Patrick Henry Hughes

#86. As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Les Brown

#87. A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle.

Zig Ziglar

#88. Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.

Sam Altman

#89. In the end I have to hold myself accountable ... I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.

Kara Goucher

#90. The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.

Denise Morrison

#91. Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.

Amby Burfoot

#92. When we set out on the path, we always have a fairly clear idea of what we hope to find. Women are generally seeking their Soul Mate, and men looking for Power. Neither party is really interested in learning. They simply want to reach the thing they have set as their goal.

Paulo Coelho

#93. The best way to create a future is to set a goal and take action.

Debasish Mridha

#94. There is nothing better in the whole world than to know you have set a goal and achieved it.

John Patrick Hickey

#95. Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

Bear Bryant

#96. I never set money as a goal. It was a result.

Bob Diamond

#97. A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

John Patrick Hickey

#98. 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

#99. I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Curtis Carlson

#100. Set a goal to be happy; now do only what makes you happy.

Debasish Mridha