Quotes About Goal-setting

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I have always been the type of person to want to reach a goal no matter how far-fetched it was.

Your most important "want" should be the one you can control!

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

Breakfast was the meal where they could actually sit together for fifteen or twenty minutes, during which her father inevitably asked everyone to set a goal for the day. They didn't have to be serious goals—her father wasn't that guy—but were intended, he always said, to let everyone know something about what the others were doing as they went about their day.

Aim higher in case you fall short.

Aim higher in case you fall short." ? Catching Fire

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professional athlete. I knew when I got to college there was no way anybody was going to stop me from being an NFL player.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter.

the habit of planting in the mind a definite aim, objective, or purpose, and visualizing that objective until ways and means for its realization have been created.

El deseo ardiente de ser y de hacer es el punto de partida desde el cual debe comenzar el soñador. Los sueños no nacen de la indiferencia, la pereza o la falta de ambición.

Napoleon Hill

Napoleon Hill

A burning desire has devious ways of transmuting itself into its physical equivalent.

occupation into which you can throw yourself wholeheartedly. 20. Lack of concentration of effort. The "jack-of-all-trades" seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.

We know, now, that any idea, aim or purpose that is fixed in the mind and held there with a will to achieve or attain its physical or material equivalent, puts into motion powers that cannot be conquered.

Um desejo ardente de ser e fazer é o ponto de partida de onde o sonhador deve começar. Sonhos não nascem da indiferença, da preguiça ou da falta de ambição.

create in your own mind a clear, well-defined picture of the environment in which you believe you could best attain your definite chief aim.

set a high standard for yourself.

This line of procedure may take a few days or weeks of extra time, but the difference in income, in advancement, and in gaining recognition will save years of hard work at small pay. It has many advantages, the main one being that it will often save from one to five years of time in reaching a chosen goal.

we must magnetize our minds with intense DESIRE for riches, that we must become money conscious until the DESIRE for money drives us to create definite plans for acquiring it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A

Visualization Of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire: The Second Step toward Riches

First. Go into some quiet spot (preferably in bed at night) where you will not be disturbed or interrupted, close your eyes, and repeat aloud, (so you may hear your own words) the written statement of the amount of money you intend to accumulate, the time limit for its accumulation, and a description of the service or merchandise you intend to give in return for the money.