Quotes About Goal-setting

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

I'm realistic. I look for my own target that I set in my head beginning of the season. Once I get there, that's when I start enjoying scoring.

It's all fun and games when you're scoring goals but there will be a time when I'm not and I just have to try and keep doing the same things. Hit the target and, you know, see what happens at the end of the game.

Dad's very hard on me and is my biggest critic, so 10 is always going to be the target. He has said that my whole life. If you are averaging 10 goals as a midfielder, you are having a good season.

I have never thought where I will go, or forced any targets on myself.

Like most meaningful activities, campaigns are team games.

How did I happen to become an explorer? It did not just happen, for my career has been a steady progress toward a definite goal since I was fifteen years of age.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

The best way to dispel negative thoughts is to require that they have a purpose.

I have always believed," he later wrote, "that when a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties.

Create a Ladder of Descending Goals

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

winners do is focus on what they want. Losers seem to focus on what they don't want.

Nikolaos had killed Phillip and bitten me to prove how powerful she was. I bet she thought I'd be scared absolutely shitless of her. She was right on that. But I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

For those who wish to consider [...] that it may be necessary to expend a great deal of time and effort to reach a goal that is not only intangible but also not gratifying in the sense of providing ultimate tranquility, I respectfully submit this book.

Men are much more likely to discover easier and readier methods of attaining any object, when the whole attention of their minds is directed towards that single object, than when it is dissipated among a great variety of things.

Fight for your valued goal instead of fighting against the situation you do not prefer.

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.

In every aspect of life, have a game plan, and then do your best to achieve it.

Where you are going to spend your time and your energy is one of the most important decisions you get to make in life.

Instead of envying what others have, decide what YOU want out of life and focus on achieving it.

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.