Quotes about Goal-setting

Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

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.