Quotes About Goal-setting

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

To have a good life, it is not enough to remove what is wrong with it," Mihaly has explained. "We also need a positive goal; otherwise why keep going?

He has found that the more you let your mind wander, the better you are at having organized personal goals, being creative, and making patient, long-term decisions. You will be able to do these things better if you let your mind drift, and slowly, unconsciously, make sense of your life.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves.

Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way. Picture yourself in your mind's eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you've reached your goal.

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposes You've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses.

Climb highClimb farYour goal the skyYour aim the star.

If America had a motto, it would be pull yourself up by the bootstraps, work harder than the next guy, have a goal and achieve it.

I knew myself. I knew where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be the very best I could be in whatever I pursued.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That's it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.

What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you're capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you're a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That's my objective in Tottenham.

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

I've learned that if I can convince myself to just keep putting one foot in front of the other, then I can run as far as I want to.

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

Frank Bettger

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

I go out there and live or die by the sword and I'm willing to put the work in that needs to be to obtain the goal that I set out to do.

It took a lot out of me to win. But more than anything, when you are goalless, you are listless in your life.