Quotes About Goals

No dream, no journey planed, no goals to dream for and achieve

Declaring our intentions for a safer and kinder world is the obvious first step toward attaining those goals.

Do your beliefs create your goals or are your beliefs a result of achieving your goals?

Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Remember whenever money is involved, it brings out horrific things in people. It has the power not only to split families apart, but to destroy the foundations of one's life. Never lose site of this. Take time and be certain you place your trust in those whose interests and goals mirror your own.

Big dreams, are so damn tiring.

I have no ambitions. I only have obsessions.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.

When setting goals, create 'stretch' goals. They will assist you in developing your potential to its fullest!

Your aspirations are your possibilities.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

Successful people always have their next goal in mind.   Goals are dreams with deadlines.

The surest way to identify those who won't succeed at weight loss is that they tend to say things like "My goal is to lose ten pounds." Weight targets often work in the short run. But if you need willpower to keep the weight off, you're doomed in the long run. The only way to succeed in the long run is by using a system that bypasses your need for willpower.

Goals are for losers. Your mind isn't magic. It's a moist computer you can program. The most important metric to track is your personal energy. Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success. Happiness is health plus freedom. Luck can be managed, sort of. Conquer shyness by being a huge phony (in a good way). Fitness is the lever that moves the world. Simplicity transforms ordinary into amazing.

Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do. The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good every time they apply their system.

The system-versus-goals model can be applied to most human endeavors. In the world of dieting, losing twenty pounds is a goal, but eating right is a system. In the exercise realm, running a marathon in under four hours is a goal, but exercising daily is a system. In business, making a million dollars is a goal, but being a serial entrepreneur is a system.

I learned by observation that people who pursued extraordinarily unlikely goals were overly optimistic at best, delusional at worst, and just plain stupid most of the time.

Humans will always think in terms of goals. Our brains are wired that way. But goals make sense only if you also have a system that moves you in the right direction.

If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction. Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of your success until they bore you, or set new goals and reenter the cycle of permanent presuccess failure.

The secret to thwarting couch lock of any sort is to stop imagining everything you need to do, and start imagining the smallest step that you can do without much real effort.

Losers have goals, winners have systems