In the measurement world, we set a goal and strive to achieve it. In the universe of possibility, we set the context and let life unfold. — Benjamin Zander
A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar
To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy is to set your own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft — Nido R Qubein
Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action. — Theodore Roosevelt
By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So in everything you do, learn to set limitations. — Leo Babauta
If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve. — Tony Robbins
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. — Napoleon Hill
Definiteness of purpose with positive mental attitude is the starting point of all worthwhile achievement. — Napoleon Hill
Extraordinary results deemed that you set a priority and act on it. — Gary Keller
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A goal casually set and lightly taken is freely abandoned at the first obstacle. — Zig Ziglar
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. — Ronald McNair
Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there. — Bo Jackson
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. — Tony Robbins
Motivation Goal Setting Quotes
If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett
The obvious goals were there- State Champion, NCAA Champion, Olympic Champion. To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat. — Dan Gable
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much. — Jim Rohn
By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. — Mark Victor Hansen
Set daily, monthly and long term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it. — Nastia Liukin
Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.
The biggest cause of procrastination is not being excited by what you’re building towards. — Tom Bilyeu
Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal. — Elbert Hubbard
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work. — Sarah T. Bolton
For me, once the goals was set I had to try and do my best to achieve it. — Martyn Ford
Setting And Achieving Goals Quotes
It’s very important to help people figure out how to manage life, to help people figure out how to think, help inspire them, help show them what can be gained from setting goals and achieving them and that excellent feeling – and that becomes contagious. —
An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life. — Kristi Yamaguchi
With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about. — Brian Tracy
The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them — Jim Rohn
Visualizing your dreams and doing nothing about them is like setting the sat-nav in your car but refusing to turn the engine on. The law of attraction is nothing without the law of action. — Steven Bartlett
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. — Pablo Picasso
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only the latter, makes a virtue of an irremediable fault and sets up self-absorption, not only as a good but as a Philosophical Good. — Valerie Solanas
Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals — Spencer W. Kimball
Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving. — Denis Waitley
I don’t think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness. — Dan Sullivan
Setting An Example Quotes
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history. — William McKinley
Let Jammu and Kashmir lead the way in the building of a new future for India. Let it set an example to the rest of India and the world by showing how the entire region can be transformed into a zone of peace, stability and prosperity. — Pranab Mukherjee
Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world. — Rudy Ruettiger
Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize. — Che Guevara
Do good. Inspire. Set an example to yourself and others. Have faith. Make your actions loud. Have fun. Be nice. Love strong. — Jessie J
I just want to leave a positive memory of setting an example and bringing our youth with us. — Misty Copeland
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind! — Alexander Hamilton
The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air. — Tim Wise
Jordan seeks to play only one role, that of a model state. It is our aim to set an example for our Arab brethren, not one that they need follow but one that will inspire them to seek a higher, happier destiny within their own borders. — King Hussein I
I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time. — Misty Copeland
Setting Boundaries Quotes
Your response must always be expressed in the form of strong, yet empathic, limit-setting boundaries—that is, tough love—not as hatred or violence. — Chris Voss
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you! — Paula Radcliffe
All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader? — Hakeem Olajuwon
You don’t lose real friends, real opportunities, or real relationships when you start standing up for yourself and setting clear boundaries. You lose abusers, manipulators, narcissists, control freaks, attention seekers, and mental-health destroying leeches. — Steven Bartlett
A good night of sleep depends on a good day of wakefulness, including exercise, sensible eating, minimal alcohol, stress management, and setting boundaries. — Peter Attia
Boundaries which mark off one field of science from another are purely artificial, are set up only for temporary convenience. Let chemists and physicists dig deep enough, and they reach common ground. — George Iles
Set boundaries, and learn to take a punch or punch back, without anger. The guy across the table is not the problem; the situation is. — Chris Voss
I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us. — Jada Pinkett Smith
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. — Brené Brown
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others. — Brene Brown
Setting Priorities Quotes
There are so many needs in the world, and our hearts cannot carry them all. You must walk to the priorities God has set before you. — Ravi Zacharias
The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones. — Brandon Sanderson
Some individuals require high stakes or external pressure to focus, indicating challenges in setting internal priorities or handling equal weight given to all thoughts. — Gary Brecka
Cleaners do the hardest things first, just to show there’s no task too big. — Tim Grover
The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. — John Berger
There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them. — Jeffrey R. Immelt
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. — Alan Thicke
Yes, you can have it all, but not all at the same time. Set your own priorities, trust your gut and follow your heart. — Quentin Bryce
I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that. — Judd Gregg
The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people. — Manmohan Singh
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them. — Yogi Berra
The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high. — Steve Harvey
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
Our confession will either imprison us or set us free. Our confession is the result of our believing, and our believing is the result of our right or wrong thinking. — Kenneth E. Hagin
Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not. — Martin Luther
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. — Michelangelo
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. — Dick Gregory
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free. — Assata Shakur
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. — John Wesley
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