Sayings about Goals
Before you can score, you must first have a goal. ~ Greek Proverbs
God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now. ~ African-American Proverb
No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere. ~ French Proverb
He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese Proverb
Set your sail according to the wind. ~ French Proverb
Take heed you do not find what you do not seek. ~ English Proverbs
If your strength is small, don’t carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don’t give advice. ~ Chinese Proverb
Nothing is too difficult you only need to know how. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Quotations about Goals
We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something. ~ Maxwell Maltz
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. ~ David J. Schwartz
Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you. ~ Author Unknown
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. ~ Helmut Schmidt
If you want to achieve a high goal, you’re going to have to take some chances. ~ Alberto Salazar
Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant’s into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don’t just think it — ink it! ~ Author Unknown
Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. ~ E. L. Konigsburg
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time. ~ Anna Neagle
No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. ~ Antoinette Brown Blackwell
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. ~ Zig Ziglar
First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy. ~ Fitzhugh Dodson
Goals that are not written down are just wishes. ~ Author Unknown
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.~ Greg Anderson
The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. ~ Fitzhugh Dodson
Reach for the moon. If you fall short at least you’ll be among the stars. ~ Author Unknown
This one step — choosing a goal and sticking to it — changes everything. ~ Scott Reed
I’m in my prime. There’s no goal too far, no mountain too high. ~ Wilma Rudolph
Without a goal, discipline is nothing but self-punishment. ~ Author Unknown
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~ Author Unknown
If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals. ~ Lou Holtz
There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal! ~ Maggie Kuhn
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it. ~ Mack R. Douglas
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. ~ W. Clement Stone
If you want to reach a goal, you must see yourself reaching it in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. ~ Zig Ziglar
Decide that you really want to achieve the goal… ~ Robert J. McKain
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. ~ Stephen A. Brennan
You set a goal to be the best and then you work hard every hour of every day, striving to reach that goal. If you allow yourself to settle for anything less than number one, you are cheating yourself. ~ Don Shula
Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. ~ Les Brown
You are successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal. ~ Chester F. Carlson
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose — somehow we win out. ~ Ronald Reagan
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~ Henry Ford
Establishing goals is all right if you don’t let them deprive you of interesting detours. ~ Doug Larson
I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ~ Curtis Carlson
The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal. ~ Menander of Athens
My ability to concentrate and work toward that goal has been my greatest asset. ~ Jack Nicklaus
The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives. ~ Author Unknown
Goals are as essential to success as air is to life. ~ David J. Schwartz
Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present-tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism. ~ Author Unknown
The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. ~ Alexander Graham Bell
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The thing that contributes to anyone’s reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough. ~ Charles E. Wilson
The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal, we push the button to start the success mechanism. ~ Charles Jones
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. ~ George Lucas
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. ~ Charles DeLint
A goal properly set is halfway reached. ~ Zig Ziglar
You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~ Charles C. Noble
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it. ~ Michael Friedsam
In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. ~ B. Zander
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. ~ Earl Nightingale
Set short term goals and you’ll win games. Set long term goals and you’ll win championships! ~ Author Unknown
I just want to leave the world a little better than I found it, and that’s my goal in life. ~ Armand Hammer
Never give up. Keep your thoughts and your mind always on the goal. ~ Tom Bradley
Put your goals in writing. If you can’t put it on a sheet of paper, you probably can’t do what it takes to achieve the goal. ~ Author Unknown
Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated. ~ J. Yahl
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal. ~ Goethe
Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there. ~ Natasha Josefowitz
Life’s up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want. ~ Marsha Sinetar
The more goals you set, the more goals you get. ~ Mark Victor Hansen
You’ll never achieve your dreams if they don’t become goals. ~ Author Unknown
Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~ Diana Scharf Hunt
Success as I see it is a result, not a goal. ~ Gustave Flaubert
A good system shortens the road to the goal. ~ Orison Swett Marden