The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. - Jim Rohn Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. - Tom Landry I think setting a goal, getting a visual image of what it is you want. You've got to see what it is you want to achieve before you can pursue it. - Chuck Norris

It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment. - David Allen Now, China, India have set goals. We're going to be able to review what they're doing. We're going to be able to challenge them if they don't meet those goals. We're going to pursue this anyway, because the President understands that our future lies with a clean energy economy. We've doubled renewables this year. There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this. - David Axelrod Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature's design. Are...

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. - Bear Bryant I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly. - Roger Federer The Scottish government set a goal of increasing exports by 50% by 2017. That is ambitious. Is it achievable? - Tom Hunter In life, nothing happens by accident. Set a goal, believe in it and go all-in to achieve it. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha The government should set a goal for a clean environment but not mandate how that goal should be implemented. - Dixie Lee Ray Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it. - Bill Toomey Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing. - Katarin...

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it - Confucius It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin E Mays The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin E Mays Falling into the trap of self-pity will get you no where in life. It's sorrowful endless cycle will keep you from reaching your goals. Everyone has a sad story but not everyone allows it to restrain them. Let life's hardships fuel you to success instead of holding you back. Start controlling your life or it will control you! - Timothy Pina

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals. - Booker T Washington When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. - Zig Ziglar This is the greatest lesson a child can learn. It is the greatest lesson anyone can learn. It has been the greatest lesson I have learned: if you persevere, stick w/it, work @ it, you have a real opportunity to achieve something. Sure, there will be storms along the way. And you might not reach your goal right away. But if you do your best and keep a true compass, you'll get there. - Edward Kennedy Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blun...

and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teaching what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. That is why I am going on my waynot to seek another and better doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal aloneor die - Hermann Hesse I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal. - Andrew Wiles

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. - Zig Ziglar Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy. - Nisargadatta Maharaj It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. - Arnold J Toynbee

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle. - Heraclitus When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. - Hermann Hesse There is only one goal. That's to keep working and keep flossing. - Red Buttons Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. - John Dewey Her keeper jersey; she thinks of it now. The number 1 on its back. A lonely number. Only one goalkeeper on the field. Only one player who guards the net. Only one who stands strong and alone behind the other ten players on the field. No place to hide. No way to disappear. - Amy Efaw I wanted to act; that was m...

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward. - Abdallah Ii All these places I want to go don't exist without you. All my goals come from one place. You. You are my biggest goal. That's not wrong, is it? - Jus Accardo Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. - Scott Adams My goal was to develop into an independent research scientist studying clinical problems at the laboratory bench, but I felt that postgraduate residency training in internal medicine was necessary. - Peter Agre I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, ...

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. - Gary Ryan Blair Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change. - John C Maxwell

To be honest, I'm not as goal oriented and ambitious as I once was. - Chantal Kreviazuk We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented. - Gerhard Schroder

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will. - Michael N Castle I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. - Bette Davis So there I was, feeling like the luckiest girl on earth. To be buried alive in such a majestic coffin! MAJOR life goal achieved!!!! - Rob Reger

On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job. - Lou Holtz Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal. - Larry Dixon And not only that but... when the station is completed, there will be an international crew made of astronauts coming from different cultural experiences, speaking different languages, but working together for a common goal. - Umberto Guidoni I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me. - Kathy Ireland People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways. - Vaclav Klaus There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a ...

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. - Bo Bennett Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything. - Jules Michelet