Quotes About Goal-setting

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

Many people] plunge into all sorts of detail about what they want to accomplish, what investment they should buy, and where they want to be, without fist making sure they know where they stand now.

New Year's resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

I am of the philosophy that if you work really hard and focus on things, you will get there in some form or fashion.

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

I always wanted to do be an allrounder. I don't know why I picked keeping.

I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

At first, after my freshman year, it was kind of a joke, going into my sophomore year like, 'Hey, I wanna graduate in three years, two-and-a-half.' And we were just kind of playing with it, added some extra classes in, and then once I finished that following spring going into that next summer, it was just like, 'Hey, I can actually do it.'

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

You hit one level of the sport, and then you want to get to the next level. Until, eventually, the Olympics becomes part of that dream, part of that goal set and the mindset of wanting to get there. And then you realize there's so much incredible hard work and determination and effort that you need to put in along the way.

If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy.

I'll stay on my bike until I've burnt a certain amount of calories or made sure I'm in negative calories for the end of the day.

There will be goals to achieve along the way, but until I captain Liverpool, I will not be satisfied.

When I left NXT, I was kind of mad that I was never NXT champ, so when I got to the main roster, that was my first goal.

To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.

If you set yourself the career goal of winning a major championship, then once you win that major championship it's then a question of 'what next?' And that can take quite a while to figure out.

When I was a player, I wanted to win the Ballon d'Or, but I knew my characteristics; I knew that it was impossible.

We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.

I gave myself a year to be a supermodel. And I said, 'If it doesn't happen, I'm going back to school.'

After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight.