Quotes About Goals

If you have a goal that you still postpone, that means, it's not one of your strengths

Finally, goals and objectives for each area need to be set. Everyone who takes on the primary responsibility for a key activity, whether product development or people, or money, must be asked: 'What can this enterprise expect of you? What should we hold you accountable for? What are you trying to accomplish and by what time?' But this is elementary management, of course.

He looks up from his work and outward toward goals. He asks: "What can I contribute that will significantly affect the performance and the results of the institution I serve?" His stress is on responsibility.

expected to get the right things done.

But it is meaningless to speak of short-range and long-range plans. There are plans that lead to action today—and they are true plans, true strategic decisions. And there are plans that talk about action tomorrow—they are dreams, if not pretexts for nonthinking, nonplanning, nondoing. The

In philosophical discussions of decision-making, an action is said to be instrumentally rational if it is a good way of achieving the goal that the agent is pursuing, whatever that goal might be. When assessing actions according to their instrumental rationality, we do not worry about where the goals come from or whether they are appropriate goals. We just ask whether the action is likely to achieve the outcome that the agent desires.

A special case of shifting the burden, which recurs with alarming frequency, is eroding goals. Whenever there is a gap between our goals and our current situation there are two sets of pressures: to improve the situation and to lower our goals. How these pressures are dealt with is central to the discipline of personal mastery

Our own happiness, therefore, is a by-product of aiming at something else and is not to be obtained by setting our sights on happiness alone.

try to shorten the base paths in order to reach home plate faster and score. All you will have accomplished by that technique is to cheapen the value of a run.

These goals are not unique to us. Our best competitors almost certainly have similar, if not identical goals. If we are to outperform them, we don't need a better vision, but a better approach to making it happen.

When distractions are manifold, it's best to remember what you are supposed to be doing.

Emotions, far from opposing reason, are extraordinarily effective means for implementing goals. Passions possess a functional, subconscious logic.

Behind the naive vanities, the daydreams, they had very badly wanted to be writers. Had wanted it without knowing at all what it was they wanted, their fervor making up for their ignorance. His older self was cooler, more noncommittal, for he had learned that to publicize your goals means running the risk of falling short of them.

When asked what we wanted to be when we grew up, we hid the truth and listed who we wanted to sleep with when we grew up.

We must have our goals, our dreams, and we must strive for them. We are not gods, however; we do not have the power to shape every aspect of the future. And the road the world makes for us is one that teaches humility if we are willing to learn.

Even if I had not become a doctor like my parents, I would've done something to do with academics.

With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more.

I've already accomplished a lot, but I have so much more to do.

You never accomplish everything you want to accomplish.

There are all these things I want to accomplish. We never know how long we're going to get.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

You know, in terms of accomplishments and things like that, I feel like I've accomplished what I've wanted.

Going to an organization where winning means something, where you're held accountable and you have goals and things like that I think that molds you early as a player and gives you that platform and foundation to be a professional.