Top 100 Setting Goal Sayings
#1. Allow your past achievements to provide fuel for your current goals.
Josh Hinds
#2. Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams.
John Patrick Hickey
#3. Writing out your goals is the first action in a chain of many on the road to achievement.
John Patrick Hickey
#4. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.
Mark W. Boyer
#5. 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
#7. Without first setting your goals correctly, it is impossible to focus on a plan to achieve them. That is why goal setting is so vital to time management and developing focus.
Mani S. Sivasubramanian
#8. Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will.
John Patrick Hickey
#9. There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work.
John Patrick Hickey
#11. Always plan no matter how improbable it seems. The bill for hindsight is much more expensive than the reciept for foresight.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#13. When we actually refer to God's blueprint, we gladly work in fascinated conjunction with it, suddenly realizing that any other action outside of that blueprint is foolhardiness and lunacy of the worst sort.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#14. One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze
#15. There are often two sets of goals in life: those that we establish, and those that really matter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.
Auliq Ice
#17. Customers expect salespeople to stimulate the sales process, to ask the right questions and finally to ask for their business. When this initiative or confidence is lacking, no matter how much they like you personally, they aren't going to respect or value you as a business partner.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#18. It is a better to have your own plan to make it happen;
Since something is going to happen either way.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#19. 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
#20. Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.
Ben Carson
#21. We can't control our destiny. We can't go back into our past history and make changes. But we can begin this moment by setting a goal and pursuing it for a better life with a greater purpose.
Ellen J. Barrier
#22. 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
#23. Life will always have a different plan for you. If you don't give up, you will eventually get to your destination. But towards the end of your life, you may look back and realize that it was never really about the destination; it was the journey that counted.
King Samuel Benson
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Or you could take a more deliberate approach. Adjust your course. Make your five-years-out ideal job closer to your if-only-I-could dream job, yet attainable from your current path. We've seen even this simple act of setting the right goal turn around people's careers.
Eric Schmidt
#27. Your choices of values and determining their priority precedes your goal setting
Sunday Adelaja
#29. Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.
Angie Morgan
#31. In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself ... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.
Nkem Paul
#32. Plan your work and work your plan" we used to say in my first Silicon Valley sales job. Identify the steps you need to take to get where you are going. Without a map who knows where you'll end up! Certainly not where you intended to be.
Ann-Marie Heidingsfelder
#33. Goal-setting and achieving those goals - that's just what I do.
Lisa Leslie
#34. Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft
Nido R. Qubein
#37. A visionary company is one which is seen growing in a consistent pattern by being goal oriented driven by a vision and a mission
Henrietta Newton Martin
#38. Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek.
John Patrick Hickey
#39. I've made money by just trying to do world-class science. That's the goal that we're setting at Celera. If we do world-class science and create new medicine paradigms, the money will more than follow at a corporate level and at a personal level.
Craig Venter
#40. The line that we chart into our future is often more a circle that brings us back to our past. And it might be that there is some hidden intent in charting circles in that we can feel like we're moving when we actually have no intent of doing so.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#41. What you are prepared to do in order to achieve what you want is the only cost involved in achieving that goal.
Steven Redhead
#42. If you get clear on the what, the how will be taken care of.
Jack Canfield
#43. 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
#44. By contrast, training and goal-setting programs had a far greater impact on productivity than did anything involving payment.32
Alfie Kohn
#45. 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
#46. I think if you can be a goal-setting person, it makes it easier to stay motivated.
Dara Torres
#48. 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
#49. No dream, no journey planed, no goals to dream for and achieve
Hisham Fawzi
#50. 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
#51. Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences
Sunday Adelaja
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#57. I think each player has an individual style. Each is concerned with giving the best to his team, and I think my best talent is dribbling and setting up goal situations, giving an assist or deceiving one of the other team's players.
Ronaldinho
#58. Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.
Joseph M. Juran
#59. Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry
#60. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
Gino Norris
#61. You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.
Gary Ryan Blair
#63. 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
#65. If you're good, you'll be recognized. Because people, even if they're prejudiced, are going to want the best. You just have to make being the best your goal in life.
Ben Carson
#67. You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.
Rob Liano
#68. Good enough may be an acceptable end, but it should never be an acceptable goal.
James Rozoff
#69. It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible.
John Patrick Hickey
#70. The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim Rohn
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. A dream is a seed.
Vision plants it.
Imagination nurtures growth.
Opportunities create blooms.
Thoughts become things!
Donna McGoff
#74. 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
#75. He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#76. Success needs you to give yourself goals to aim for.
Auliq Ice
#77. Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time.
John Patrick Hickey
#78. Graduating from college doesn't mean you're smart, said Mike Mussina who graduated from Stanford in 3 1/2 years, but it does mean you're smart enough to know that having a college degree would be a good thing.
John Feinstein
#79. People tend to spend so much time focusing on what they feel they can't do, rather examining the true potential of what they can.
Mark W. Boyer
#80. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path
Gino Norris
#81. If you are not getting the results you want change your technique
Valarie Rocha
#82. Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#83. To fall is not to fail. To fail is to never fall because I never got up in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#84. There is no deadline when it comes to setting a goal for yourself !!!
Tawana Beecham
#85. All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.
Tony Robbins
#86. As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No ideal will remain long enough to be realized, or even partly realized. The modern young man will never change his environment; for he will always change his mind.
G.K. Chesterton
#87. If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down.
John Patrick Hickey
#88. 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
#89. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.
Matt Haig
#90. Most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
David Brooks
#91. For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.
C. Wagner
#92. Stop making excuses of why you can't or how hard it is and start making your life matter.
John Patrick Hickey
#93. 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
#94. I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.
Carson McCullers
#95. The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
Jude Bijou
#96. Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers.
John Patrick Hickey
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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