Quotes about Goal-setting

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.

joy and refreshment in contemplating the great men who have found that precious stone for which they sell all, even their lives... proceeding on their chosen course without vacillating...absorbed in themselves and in working towards their higher goal.

The bookends of success are starting and finishing. Decisions help us start; discipline helps us finish.

Part of success is preparation on purpose.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Accustom yourself to look first to the dreadful consequences of failure; then fix your eye on the glorious prize which is before you; and when your strength begins to fail, and your spirits are well nigh exhausted, let the animating view rekindle your resolution, and call forth in renewed vigour the fainting energies of your soul.