Reaching Goals Quotes

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.

It isn't a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.

Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

We all like to look forward to things. Incentivize yourself with a reward—a massage, dinner with a friend, a night watching your favorite show, a yoga class on Saturday morning. Visualizing a reward at the end of the to-do tunnel may help with reaching goals/completing tasks.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

It stands to reason that if we direct all our efforts towards reaching a goal, we stand in grave danger of losing everything on which we have based our daily activities. For when a goal is superimposed on an activity instead of evolving out of it, we often feel cheated when we reach it.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

We have reached an important milestone and achieved a new momentum in reaching a goal all Americans should embrace - building a secure, peaceful, democratic Iraq that is no longer a threat to the United States or the international community.

Politics is the art of reaching a goal that benefits all citizens of a nation.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

My definition of success is to be happy in what you like to do best. It's not a monetary value; it's an internal value in itself. If you're happy from the inside-out, thats what is important. Success comes as a day to day value or reaching a goal that you have, and you've got to prepare yourself for what's to come when success is there.

Being scared is normal. My technique for erasing it is facing it. Be afraid and brave. Be nervous and courageous. The first few minutes of being scared is your test to see if you're really serious about reaching a goal. Push through anxiety and come out victorious. Fear is just a test. Honor the feeling. Know it's there. Know it's temporary. Face it to erase it.

The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream...It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

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

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

In the long run men hit only what they aim at.

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

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

The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

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.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

If you don't know where you're going any road will do