Quotes About Goal-setting

El viejo dicho es cursi pero cierto: No planificar es planificar el fracaso.

Novelist Victor Hugo believed, He who every morning plans the transactions of the day and follows out that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life . . . But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

The first definition of planning that I ever learned was this: planning is predetermining tomorrow's results today.

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Saddle your dreams before you ride em.

If you are determined nothing can stop you from determining your dreams.

Empower your dreams with deadlines.

To have more empowering goals, look within

Too often, many people choose goals that are not inspiring and empowering to them

After my first year, I knew exactly what I wanted to do, what I wanted to get better at, and how I was going to do it.

Most of the time when I don't set goals, I always exceed whatever goal people have.

My expectations for myself were really high.

I set some lofty goals for myself and I think you have to.

I wasn't putting my all into it and I was still managing to score goals, and that gave me something to dream about, and something to work hard for. So I ended up going to the gym on my days off, trying to be a step ahead of everyone. Then we played Luton and I did OK and they came in for me.

When I said I wanted to run a marathon, I wanted to do it under four hours. But when I started training, I was like, 'Oh I got this,' so I wanted to run between 3:30 and 3:35. I'm really proud of myself.

My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.

My style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward. I aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I'm after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want

A lazy person never gets what he wants, but a hard-working man gets what he goes after.