110 Specific Goals Quotes

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Famous Specific Goals Quotes

Goals help you channel your energy into action. - Les Brown

Goals help you channel your energy into action. — Les Brown

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. - Brian Tracy

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. — Brian Tracy

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal - Michael Porter

Sound strategy starts with having the right goal — Michael Porter

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related — Unknown

A target should go with every goal. A target is the value that defines success. — Michael Porter

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. - Brian Tracy

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. — Brian Tracy

We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles — Jim Rohn

I'm a very goal-oriented person. — CM Punk

Set too many goals and keep adding more goals. Goals have a tendency to be realized all at once. — Mark Victor Hansen

Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek

A goal is a dream with a timeframe on it. — Dan Miller

A goal is a dream with a deadline. - Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline. — Napoleon Hill

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. — Paul J. Meyer

Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results. — Mark Victor Hansen

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals — Brad Stevens

Short Specific Goals Quotes

  • Long term success is a direct result of what you achieve everyday. Goals provide your daily routine — Rick Pitino
  • Great goals make great people. People cannot hit what they do not aim for. — Roy T. Bennett
  • For me, once the goals was set I had to try and do my best to achieve it. — Martyn Ford
  • Limit yourself to fewer goals, and you’ll achieve more. — Leo Babauta
  • Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. — James Clear
  • A goal properly set is halfway reached. — Zig Ziglar
  • Goals are a preview of future events and experiences in your life. — Mark Victor Hansen
  • People with goals succeed because they know where they're going. — Earl Nightingale
  • Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. — Tony Robbins
  • A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself. — Deena Kastor

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Clear Goals Quotes

Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This goal must include freeing of the American media and government from subservient Jewish interests. — David Duke

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning. — T. B. Joshua

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures. — Adi Shankara

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere — Henry A. Kissinger

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

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness; it just resolves to press beyond it. — Priscilla Shirer

Servant-leader ship is all about making the goals clear and then rolling your sleeves up and doing whatever it takes to help people win. In that situation, they don't work for you, you work for them. — Ken Blanchard

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

It is a fact that under equal conditions, large-scale battles and whole wars are won by troops which have a strong will for victory, clear goals before them, high moral standards, and devotion to the banner under which they go into battle. — Georgy Zhukov

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Setting Goals Quotes

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C. S. Lewis

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

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

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

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past. — Joseph M. Juran

Individual Goals Quotes

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner

The goal, it seemed, had become a part of their identity, and so their uncertainty about the goal no longer merely threatened the plan; it threatened them as individuals. — Oliver Burkeman

A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves. — Reuven Feuerstein

The goal is not to fit in. If anything, it’s to amplify the differences, what doesn’t fit, the special characteristics unique to how you see the world. Instead of sounding like others, value your own voice. Develop it. — Rick Rubin

Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being. — Vernon Howard

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education. — John W. Gardner

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. — Isaiah Berlin

If you need to show up, you show up. You might detest every individual in the room, but if your presence makes them all feel better, if it pulls the team together, if it results in better performances, then you’ve helped yourself to get one step closer to your own goal." — Tim Grover

Connect the dots between individual roles and the goals of the organization. When people see that connection, they get a lot of energy out of work. They feel the importance, dignity, and meaning in their job. — Ken Blanchard

Success isn't about winning everything; it’s about achieving your dream, be that teaching middle school or flying jets. And no matter what we as individual women want, no matter what our goals, we have to support one another. — Zosia Mamet

Long Term Goals Quotes

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you. — Roger Federer

The more immediate pleasure you get from an action, the more strongly you should question whether it aligns with your long-term goals. — James Clear

Shouldn't the long-term goal of any society be complete unemployment? — Doug Stanhope

Most people know exactly what they need to do to reach their goals, but they’re not willing to make the short-term sacrifice for long-term achievement. — Alex Hormozi

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

Our goal in Liverpool is to create the kind of stability that the Red Sox enjoy. We are committed to building for the long term. — John W. Henry

They call it perfect timing after years of long-term patience. — Steven Bartlett

Every goal that you will ever pursue will require a plan of action. Whether you are pursuing your life’s destiny or striving to obtain a particular goal, you must be able to see things as you desire them to be. — T. D. Jakes

I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. — Rudolf Rocker

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results. — Seth Godin

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More Specific Goals Quotes

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action. — Malcolm X

Supplements can be a useful tool for addressing specific nutrient deficiencies or supporting certain health goals. — Rhonda Patrick

Thinking in specifics when it comes to progress allows an accurate perspective about what you’ve done and where you are, and it puts you in a better position to set clear goals and plan for bigger and better results. — Dan Sullivan

Supplements can be a useful tool for addressing nutrient deficiencies or supporting specific health goals. — Steven Gundry

A leader is a visionary who successfully carries others along to achieve a particular goal, within a specific time frame. — Folorunsho Alakija

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals. — Gary Ryan

Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions. — Connor Franta

As a husband, your love for your wife has a specific goal: her holiness. — Winston Smith

To get momentum, you must first focus on a specific goal with passion and intensity. — Donald Trump

All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims. — Lou Holtz

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them. — Stephen Covey

It's Very Important to understand the difference between dreams and goals. Dreams are things we wish for-things you enjoy thinking about but don't really know when they'll happen. Goals, on the other hand, are specific things you have decided you need to accomplish within a clearly defined period of time. — Bill Phillips

I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. — Serj Tankian

I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants — Zig Ziglar

The great majority of people are “wandering generalities” rather than “meaningful specifics”. The fact is that you can't bit a target that you can't see. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. You have to have goals. — Zig Ziglar

Wake up in the morning with a specific goal to look forward to. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

What nearly all suicide terrorist attacks have in common is a specific secular and strategic goal: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland. — Robert Pape

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life. — Joseph Campbell

Christ had a specific evangelizing goal in mind when he prayed at the Last Supper that all his disciples 'be one...'The Church's evangelizing mission, therefore, moves along the path of ecumenism, the path of unity of faith, of evangelical witness and authentic fraternity. — Pope Benedict XVI

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals. — Richard Brancatisano

I think if you set yourself specific goals, that's quite a lot of pressure. — Nicholas Hoult

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is. — Max Levchin

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. — Ralph Abraham

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. — Richard Yates

You must see your goals clearly and specifically before you can set out for them. Hold them in your mind until they become second nature. — Les Brown

When you are a man of power, your decisions affect so many people and sometimes it can appear to be extremely evil, when really you just have a specific goal to reach. I had to understand that state of mind because what was most important was the bigger goal not the smaller decisions. — Jimmy Jean-Louis

Gender equality and empowerment of women is key to the success of the Millennium Development Goals. Not only as a specific target, but for the goals in general. Women bear a heavier burden of the world's poverty than men, because of the discrimination they face in education, health care, employment and control of assets. — Johanna Sigurðardottir

The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947) — Gordon Allport

Its important to have specific dreams. Dream Big. Dream without fear. — Randy Pausch

Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations. — Les Brown

Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. — Terence McKenna

A vague goal is no goal at all. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be very impressive, for instance, if they weren't specific, but simply were couched in a phraseology such as 'thou shalt not be a bad person. — Neal A. Maxwell

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement. — Charles J. Givens

So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away. — Benjamin Netanyahu

I have a suggestion: When a temple is conveniently nearby, small things may interrupt your plans to go to the temple. Set specific goals, considering your circumstances, of when you can and will participate in temple ordinances. Then do not allow anything to interfere with that plan. — Richard G. Scott

An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future. — Ken Wyatt

Before starting a fitness program or diet, know why you're doing it. Have specific goals with deadlines and visualize the end result each night before going to bed. — Robert Cheeke

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best. — Kurt Thomas

I set myself some specific goals, but the key one is just getting myself into as good a shape as possible for one day this year: the Olympic marathon. — Paula Radcliffe

Generalized statements ... which instill nebulous fear without specific information are exactly in line with the goals of terrorism. — Ze Frank

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along. — Mary-Kate Olsen

Decide upon your true dreams and goals - write down your specific goals and develop a plan to reach them. — George Raveling

Personally, I don't think it's possible to do great things alone or through individual actions. On the contrary, I think it is only possible to know what to do in a specific moment once you have understood the zeitgeist, and it is only possible to move things forward if you have a sense of responsibility. And that is exactly the goal I have set for myself: to try to encourage France and the French people to change and develop further. — Emmanuel Macron

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