Quotes on Achieving Your Goals

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The key to achievement is to move forward along your chosen path with firm determination.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

If you give orders and explain nothing, you might get obedience, but you'll get no creativity. If you tell them your purpose, then when your original plan is shown to be faulty, they'll find another way to achieve your goal. Explaining to your men doesn't weaken their respect for you, it proves your respect for them.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal.

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, "Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times." I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

What's keeping you from being rich? In most cases it's simply a lack of belief. In order to become rich, you must believe you can do it, and you must take the actions necessary to achieve your goal.