Quotes on Reaching Goals

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

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

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

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

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.

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.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

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.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?