Quotations similar to GOALS - PURPOSE, PRIORITIES
Also see GOALS AFFIRMATIONS
Also see Beyond SMART: 17 Steps to Achieving Goals
Compiled by Che Garman
90% of people will give up on a goal after they bump into their first obstacle. - Terry Tillman
A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. - Bo Bennet
A goal is a dream with a deadline. - Napoleon Hill
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline. - Harvey Mackay
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
- Bruce Lee
A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Abraham Lincoln
A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A goal without an action plan is a daydream. - Nathaniel Brandon
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.
- Truman Capote
A person who is going nowhere, generally gets there. - Unknown
A realistic, attainable, challenging and desirable goal creates energy and enthusiasm.
- David Lawrence Preston
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder. - Eileen Caddy
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. - William Hazlitt
According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis. - Brian Tracy
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. - Pliny the Younger
An undefined goal is unreachable. - Brian Tracy
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. - Dr Wayne Dyer
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are who already possess it. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Begin with the end in mind. - Stephen Covey
Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. - Farrah Gray
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. - Mark Victor Hansen
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. - Napoleon Hill
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. - Mario Andretti
Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose. - Paul J Meyer
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so. - Belva Davis
Dream big, talk big, and turn your faith loose! - Kenneth Copeland
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil. - John Ruskin
Dreams are free, so free your dreams. - Astrid Alauda
Dreams are powerless unless they are specific. - Bo Sanchez
Dreams are the seedlings of reality. - James Allen
Dreams are the spark plugs of life. - Karl Moore
Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them. - Josie Bisset
Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
- John Updike
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow. - Doug Firebaugh
Every well-built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints. - Napoleon Hill
Everyone needs something to look forward to… when there is nothing to aim for, there is nothing to live for. - Ursula Markham
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. - Denis Waitley
Goals allow us to control the direction of change in our life. - Brian Tracy
Goals are dreams we convert to plans and take action to fulfill. - Zig Ziglar
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive. - Robert H Schuller
Goals are your personal statements of what you are truly willing to do to achieve what you really want to achieve. - Denis Waitley
Goals don't start in our brain; they start in our heart. - Robert Anthony
Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves. - Denis Waitley
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true. - Leon Joseph Suenens
Having a dream you don’t pursue is like buying an ice-cream cone and watching it melt all over your hand. - Frank Papasso
Hold fast to dreams. For if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
- James Langston Hughes
I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the years. - Henry Moore
I would rather attempt to do something great and fail, than attempt to do nothing and succeed. - Robert Schuller
If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago? - Bill Gates
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. - Thomas Fuller
If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals. - Brian Tracy
If you aim for nothing, you'll hit it right on the head, and if you aim for something, you will hit that too. - David DeNotaris
If you are bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -you don't have enough goals. - Lou Holtz
If you are serious about your goals, drop the conditions. Go directly to your goal. Be your goal! - Eric Allenbaugh
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. - William James
If you do not get chills when you set a goal, you’re not setting big enough goals. - Bob Proctor
If you don’t give your subconscious mind some goals to work on, it will continue to give you the same old, same old. - Che Garman
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. - Nora Roberts
If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer. - Zig Ziglar
If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. - Robertson Davies
If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance. - Napoleon Hill
If you don't know where you are going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning. - Denis Waitley
If you don't know where you are going, you can never get lost. - Herb Cohen
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. - Albert Einstein
If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive. - Zig Ziglar
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it. - H W Longfellow
If your goal has no inherent reward, you do not have a goal. - Robert Anthony
If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today. - Joyce Chapman
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. - Arnold H Glasgow
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. - Robert Heinlein
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at. - Henry David Thoreau
In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter. - Barry Gallagher
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
- Brian Tracy
It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.
- Gen. Wesley Clark
It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters, in the end. - Ursula Le Guin
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. - Mabel Newcomber
It's not what a vision is, it's what a vision does. - Robert Frotz
Keep high aspirations, moderate expectations, and small needs. - William Howard Stein
Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal. - Elbert Hubbard
Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. - Mae West
Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there. - Carl Frederick
Last year I made a list of things that I resolved to do - I’ll use that list again this year - it’s still as good as new. - Unknown
Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. - Marsha Sinetar
Live your heart’s passion. Do whatever it is that excites your inner light and passion.
- Henry Leo Bolduc
Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures. - James Cash Penney
Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly. - Cecil Demille
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
Man in a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. - Aristotle
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D Brandeis
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never be pushed by your problems, but be led by your DREAMS! - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about. - Unknown
No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, more to learn, more to achieve. - Barack Obama
No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are - it is never too late to be who you are meant to be. - Esther Hicks
No wind favors he who has no destined port. - Montaigne
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it up into small jobs. - Henry Ford
Nothing stands between you and your dream except determination and time. - Che Garman
Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
- Coleman Cox
One never goes as far when one doesn't know where one is going. - Goethe
One step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything. - Scott Reed
One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. - Michael Korda
One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
- Sidney Howard
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. - Don Marquis
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them. - Tony Robbins
People who don't have dreams don't have much. - Steve Price
People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. - M Maltz
People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine. - Brian Tracy
People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. - Earl Nightingale
Set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. - Les Brown
Set your goals high, and don't stop 'til you get there. - Bo Jackson
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. - Tony Robbins
Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.
- Paul Meyer
Success starts with a dream, a thought; but that's only the first step. Writing it down is the second step. Doing specific things to bring it about is the third step. - Unknown
Take heed: You do not find what you do not seek. - English Proverb
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will be able to see farther. - Zig Ziglar
The discipline of writing something down is the first step towards making it happen. - Lee Iacocca
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. - Michaelangelo
The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. - Goethe
The impossible can always be broken down into possibilities. - Unknown
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT. - Ben Stein
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. - Earl Nightingale
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
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities. - Vic Braden
The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. - Earl Nightingale
The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move. - Brian Tracy
The most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffry F Abert
The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it. - Mal Pancoast
The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first. - Robert J McKain
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. - Denis Waitley
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach. - Benjamin Mays
The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. - Bill Copeland
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them. - Jim Rohn
The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become. - James Allen
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything. - Scott Reed
To reach a goal you don't need to know all the answers. Just have a clear idea of the goal you want to reach. - W Clement Stone
To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage. - Stephen Covey
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. - Michael Hanson
Too many people have a wonderful dream and just talk about it rather than do something about it. - Debbie Fields
Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you. - Zig Ziglar
Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight. - Denis Waitley
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Jonathan Swift
We all need lots of powerful long-range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles.
- Jim Rohn
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. - Maxwell Maltz
We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don’t know where you’re aiming, you don’t have a goal. - Mary Kay Ash
What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals. - Zig Ziglar
Whatever goal you want to reach, you can reach it 10 times faster if you are happy.
- Steve Chandler
Whatever your objective, there's one sure way to accomplish it. Make certain that you do something every day that brings you closer to its realization. - Jim Hartness
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius
When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. - Charles R. Swindoll
When you reach the top, keep climbing. - Zen proverb
When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind. - Graham Stedman
When you’re not goal-striving, not looking forward, you’re not really living. - Maxwell Maltz
Where you’re headed is more important than how fast you’re going. - Stephen Covey
Winners work on goals. Losers work on excuses. - Che Garman
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C.S. Lewis
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. - Chuck Carlson
You can bear any HOW if you have a big enough WHY. - Unknown
You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.
- Zig Ziglar
You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have. - Zig Ziglar
You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with. - Thomas Edison
You have to know what you want in order to attain it. - Douglas Lurtan
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
- Charles C Noble
You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it you become someone worth becoming. - Jim Rohn
You’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute. - J D Salinger
You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory or go back to the desk. - Eric Burdon
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