Quotes About Goal-setting

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. One of the widest gaps in human experience is the gap between what we say we want to be and our willingness to discipline ourselves to get there.

Use Self-Talk for Managing Your Own Anger • I'll focus on dealing with the problem and stay calm. • This isn't about proving that I am right and they are wrong. I don't have to "win" this, I have to manage it. • I need to keep reminding myself about what the ultimate goal is here. • This isn't a disaster, it's a small problem to be solved.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

All my life I've wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.

Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

Endeavor to work as hard as possible to attain a new aim with each day that comes by. Don't go to bed until you have achieved something productive

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

It's important to wake up everyday and remind yourself what you're working towards. You create your own life, it's not set out there for you.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Start with the end in mind. If you want to be a millionaire, talk like one, act like one, work like one.

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

Five years from now I see myself still working hard to get where I want to be, because I think big.

The one strongest, most important part of my game is that I want to be the best. I won't accept anything less that that. My ability to concentrate and work toward hat goal has been my greatest asset.

You must plan your work and then work your plan.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

Concentration of effort and the habit of working with a definite chief aim are two of the essential factors in success, which are always found together. One leads to the other.

I know that I have the potential. And the opportunities. But I don't say: "I want to win the Australian Open in 2018." It doesn't work that way.

Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.

Most of us look forward to the start of a new year as a clean slate. We reflect on the past 12 months, take stock of where we are, and make new resolutions about how to improve in the coming year.

Life punishes the vague wish and rewards the specific ask.

What do you want?" is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.