130 Setting Quotes

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Famous Setting Quotes

Action expresses priorities. — Charles A. Garfield

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

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

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

Your action expresses your priorities. - Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities. — Mahatma Gandhi

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. — H. L. Hunt

Short Setting Quotes

  • If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. — Richard Bach
  • To force a human being to learn according to a set curriculum is a dictatorial act. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C. S. Lewis
  • Before the TRUTH can set you free,you must first recognize which LIES are holding you hostage. — Prince Ea
  • When the sun has set, no candle can replace it. — George R. R. Martin
  • History is a set of lies agreed upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. — Albert Einstein
  • Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. — St. Catherine of Siena
  • Put aside your pride, Set down your arrogance, And remember your grave. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. — Michelangelo Buonarroti

Setting Image Quotes

My sun sets to rise again. - Robert Browning quote

My sun sets to rise again. — Robert Browning

Setting quote Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. - Mehmet Murat Ildan quote

When the sun is setting, leave whatever you are doing and watch it. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our own limitations are those we set up in our own minds. - Napoleon Hill quote

Our own limitations are those we set up in our own minds. — Napoleon Hill

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld quote

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. - Napoleon Bonaparte quote

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Setting quote Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. - B. F. Skinner quote

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies. — B. F. Skinner

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last. - William Shakespeare quote

The last taste of sweets is sweetest last. — William Shakespeare

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. - Henri Poincare quote

Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. — Henri Poincare

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something. - Sam Walton quote

I had to get up everyday with my mind set on improving something. — Sam Walton

Setting quote Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer. - Keith Moon quote

I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer. — Keith Moon

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Diller quote

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. — Phyllis Diller

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. - James Baldwin quote

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. — James Baldwin

Setting quote If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
If you set out to be liked, you will accomplish nothing.
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar N. Bradley quote

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar N. Bradley

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. - Lewis B. Smedes quote

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. — Lewis B. Smedes

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire. - George Carlin quote

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, set them on fire. — George Carlin

Setting quote Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The most sublime act is to set another before you. - William Blake quote

The most sublime act is to set another before you. — William Blake

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. - Frank Zappa quote

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird. — Frank Zappa

The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch. - Sonny Barger quote

The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch. — Sonny Barger

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. - John Green quote

Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children. — John Green

Direction, not intention determines your destination. - Andy Stanley quote

Direction, not intention determines your destination. — Andy Stanley

Setting quote Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.
Set a goal so big that you can't achieve it until you grow into the person who can.

Setting Goals Quotes

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. — Andrew Carnegie

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

Setting quote The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves.
The only limitations one has are the ones they place on themselves.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. — Rabindranath Tagore

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner. — Les Brown

Set your goals high enough to inspire you and low enough to encourage you. — Unknown

Setting quote Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
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

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

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

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals. — Brian Tracy

Setting quote You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
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

Setting quote Sometimes what you're most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.
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

Setting quote The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off
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

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More Setting Quotes

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. - Bo Jackson quote

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there. — Bo Jackson

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis. - John Cusack quote

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis. — John Cusack

Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up. - The Notorious B.I.G. quote

Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up. — The Notorious B.I.G.

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them. - Yogi Berra quote

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 quote

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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