Setting Goals Quotes - Page 9

• Success equals goals; all else is commentary

  Brian Tracy

  Success, Goal, Commentary

  Twitter post from Jan 24, 2015

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• Success is not measured in achievement of goals, but in the stress and strain of meeting those goals

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Stress, Goal, Achievement

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

  Jim Rohn

  Powerful, Past, Long

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 09, 2017

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• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Goal

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• Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Jobs, Best Job, Goal

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

  Salman Rushdie

  Mean, Creating, People

  "Terror Is Glamour". "Spiegel" Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

  James Gould Cozzens

  Success, People, Goal

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• Goals should always be made to a point that will make us reach and strain.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Goal, Made, Should

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• You'll fail at a 100% of the goals you don't set.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Goal, Failing

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• I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Winning, Long, People

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• Winners can tell you where they are going and what they plan to do along the way.

  Denis Waitley

  Strength, Work Out, Goal

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• Before you can really start setting financial goals, you need to determine where you stand financially.

  David Bach

  Business, Financial Goals, Self Improvement

  FaceBook post by David Bach from Apr 06, 2011

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• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Live Life

  "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

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• The most important thing to do is to set goals. Training is a waste of time if you don't have goals.

  Samantha Riley

  Motivational, Sports, Goal

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• Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Past, Practice, Goal

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• Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

  Bill Bright

  Goal, Helping, Miserable

  Bill Bright (2004). “The Journey Home: Finishing with Joy”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

  Peter Shilton

  Years, Goal, England

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• 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

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Reality

  David Allen (2008). “Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life”, p.192, Penguin

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• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  Watts Humphrey

  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

  Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

  Denise Morrison

  Skills, Long, Goal

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• Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

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• One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field carries over directly into life. In a team sport you have to learn how to work together, to set goals, and then work toward those goals in a productive way. You learn to be responsible and you learn how to not only depend on others, but also be independent so you can support others.

  Sheila Cornell-Douty

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Set goals for things you can control. In my case, I can't control the marks from the judges, but I can control how I train every day, and I can control my performance.

  Claire Carver-Dias

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I know you're supposed to set goals for yourself. I see all that motivational stuff on television. Think about the future, what's next! But I'm all into the journey. It's fascinating to me. So if I make certain what I want moment to moment, I'm cool at the crossroads.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Inspirational, Softball, Journey

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• Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

  Samuel Insull

  Lonely, Goal, Rooms

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