Quotes About Goal-setting

In difficult moments it's sometimes a good idea to ask yourself what it is you most want to be doing and consider how it can be achieved. If it can't, move on to the second best thing.

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.

I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that.

Ultimately, leadership is not about glorious crowning acts. It's about keeping your team focused on a goal and motivated to do their best to achieve it, especially when the stakes are high and the consequences really matter. It is about laying the groundwork for others' success, and then standing back and letting them shine.

Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

You have to persevere, you have to just not give up, and you have to know what you want. You have to be able to see your dream.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.

You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.

Everyone saying, 'She'll bring back women's skating. This will be the one to watch at the Olympics.' And they say things that are so far away, but really, you have to bring it back in and look at the next competition, the next day, what you want to accomplish because if you get too far ahead of yourself, you can trip yourself up.

If I was happy with three trophies, then suddenly I had to have four. If I was happy with four, then I had to have five.

Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.

It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am at times - I push myself to be better, constantly.

What I can tell them is the way you become an Olympic champion is to start working now. I tell them why it's always worth it to put the time and effort into something you want to be good at.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

I am always motivated. I am ambitious and I want to always improve.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

Visualizing how you want to be is [an] effective way to move toward your goal.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it.