Quotes on Setting Goals

Setting goals helps bring your future into your present and the present is the only time we can take action.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

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

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.

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.

Leadership that exploits and sacrifices young people on the altar of its goals is nothing more than raw, demonic power. Genuine leadership is found in ceaseless efforts to foster young people, to pave the way forward for them.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

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

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

The secret of unleashing your true power is setting goals that are exciting enough that they truly inspire your creativity and ignite yourpassion.

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal

The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.

When you set goals, something inside of you starts saying, "Let's go, let's go," and ceilings start to move up.