Quotes about Goals

An unrelenting focus on specific objectives and clearly defined outcomes is a requirement for any team that judges itself on performance.

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

Effective negotiation requires a persistent focus on what is most important.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

There are a lot of goals and ambitions that I have in life, things I want to accomplish. Who knows? I mean - it could be politics one day. I want to have a life that can help people.

most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem.

Our Center would be nonpartisan; we would be as innovative as possible, not duplicating or competing with other organizations that were addressing issues successfully; we would not be afraid of possible failure if our goals were worthwhile; and we would operate always with a balanced budget. The

I have tried, at least most of the time, to set high objectives, to accept failures and disappointments with relative equanimity, to acknowledge and try to correct my mistakes and weaknesses, and then to set different and sometimes higher goals for the future.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.