Top 44 Short Goal Quotes
#1. The short-goal habit is key to larger success and is at the root of human greatness. Life is think and do, think and do, think and do. Small steps can be greater than great leaps.
Robert Genn
#2. I knew I was not a failure in any way, and so did those close to me. It doesn't matter if you fall short; it is never a failure to go after your goals with everything you've got.
Michael Phelps
#3. We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles
Jim Rohn
#4. A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be ... time to commune with your inner soul as you share the outdoors with the birds, animals, and fish that live there.
Fred Bear
#5. You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.
Roger Federer
#6. Every accountable child of God needs to set goals, short- and long-range goals. A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet, and once a goal is accomplished, others can be set up.
Ezra Taft Benson
#7. The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.
Gregory Alan Williams
#8. We live but a short time, at the longest. How do we make our lives mean something? If we die in glory, with our minds and our hearts fixed on achieving a great goal, we have lived a life that mattered.
Elizabeth Berg
#9. If you're short on passion, it might be because your # goals are too small or the # fear ...
Seth Godin
#10. Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters
Janna Cachola
#11. The pain of reaching your goal will only last a short while
The pain of not trying, will last a lifetime
Steven Aitchison
#12. If your short-term goals are too high, you may give up too soon. If your long-term goals are too low, they may not give you enough enthusiasm to drive you over the bumps in the road along the way.
Darren LaCroix
#13. The point of asking questions is to find true answers; the point of measuring is to measure accurately; the point of making maps is to find your way to your destination ... In short, the goal of truth goes without saying, in every human culture.
Daniel Dennett
#14. Unless you do your best, the day will come when, tired and hungry, you will halt just short of the goal you were ordered to reach, and by halting you will make useless the efforts and deaths of thousands.
George S. Patton
#15. To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#16. Life should be like a good Tweet - short, pithy, convey a message and inspire others to follow.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#17. There are days when I don't feel motivated and I don't want to get up to go to practice. I'm a very goal-oriented person, so I set short-term goals and try to reach those goals. And when I have those days, I think about those goals, and it gets me motivated.
Dara Torres
#18. My career goals generally remain the same, but my short time goals constantly change either because I've reached them all or they no longer fit into my current strategy.
Benjamin Stone
#19. The majority of the time with two strikes I'll choke up on the bat a little bit to try to stay as short as possible. It doesn't always work out like that, but that's the goal.
Chase Utley
#21. More important than success is the individual who strives towards his goal. It is the effort which counts. The goal is just a finish line - it accomplishes there and its happiness short lived.
Amit Abraham
#22. Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.
Richard Benyo
#23. I come up short when I create music I don't like. The goal isn't to get into it to be famous; the goal is to perfect your craft and create your own sound.
Nikka Costa
#24. I have short goals - to get better every day, to help my teammates every day - but my only ultimate goal is to win an NBA championship. It's all that matters. I dream about it. I dream about it all the time, how it would look, how it would feel. It would be so amazing.
LeBron James
#25. The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.
Tony Dungy
#26. I think sometimes when you look long term, you kind of forget to take care of what you have to take care of on a daily basis. We're into short-term goals more than long-term goals.
Chip Kelly
#27. Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.
Mac Anderson
#28. It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.
Joe Budden
#29. 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
#30. Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal.
Rick Warren
#31. Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
Karen Salmansohn
#32. It was not in her nature to stop short at half-measures, not to pause when once she had fixed her purpose. If she ever trembled on looking forward to the utter ruin she was about to encounter, her second emotion was to despise herself for such pusillanimity, and to be roused to renewed energy.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#33. Our goal is long-term growth in revenue and absolute profit.. so we invest aggressively in future innovation while tightly managing our short-term costs.
Larry Page
#34. My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection - life is too short not have fun!
Liz Goldwyn
#35. There's nothing wrong with having your goals really high and trying to achieve them. That's the fun part. You may come up short. I've come up short on a lot on my goals, but it's always fun to try and achieve them.
Tiger Woods
#36. The wisdom and goal of innovative CIOs are to help the organization think clearly about the two horizons of future, the short-term gain, and the long term win.
Pearl Zhu
#37. Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.
John Marmysz
#38. Never let a short term desire get in the way of a long term goal.
Curtis Martin
#39. Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
Nick Vujicic
#40. There are more short-term goals right now the way I see it, that I feel are more important right now than maybe the 1,000 points.
Mats Sundin
#41. Self-discipline is often disguised as short-term pain, which often leads to long-term gains. The mistake many of us make is the need and want for short-term gains (immediate gratification), which often leads to long-term pain.
Charles F. Glassman
#42. 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
#43. The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.
Donato Giancola
#44. What you could learn from me, you child, you have learned." "Oh no," cried Goldmund, "we didn't become friends to end it now! What sort of friendship would that be, that reached its goal after a short distance and then simply stopped? Are you tired of me? Have you no more affection for me?
Hermann Hesse
