Not having a goal is more to be
feared than not reaching a goal.

Robert Schuller
   

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't
define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.

Denis Waitley

      
To enjoy your goals, think of them as signposts, pointing you in a certain
direction.  They give you a focus and help your energy to get moving.  The
way you go is up to you; you can get very uptight focusing only on getting
to your goal or you can relax and enjoy the entire journey, appreciating
every unexpected bend and turn of the road, ever new opportunity
for learning and feeling.

Shakti Gawain
  
You have to set the 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.

Steve Garvey
   
If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.
If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

  

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions; they can be
changed as your priorities change, new ones added, and others dropped.

O. Carl Simonton
   
   
   

Not every end is a goal.  The end of a melody is not
its goal; but nevertheless, if the melody had not reached
its end it would not have reached its goal either.

Friedrich W. Nietzsche

The happiest days are found in struggling
toward a goal, not in any attainment.

unattributed
  

If one sets up fantasy goals, then it follows that one will experience
fantasy victories and fantasy defeats, the inevitable pendulum
swing within the world of desire.  The goal of God is the reality of
yourself; you are within God, and God is within you.

A Spiritual Warrior
  

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Write down on paper your goal in life.  With that down in
black and white, we can get somewhere.  Few can define
their goal, much less write it.  You cannot find happiness
until your goal is clear and in view.

Ross Byron

  

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 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.

Benjamin Mays

  
If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them
would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals.

Lillian Carter
 
No matter what the competition is, I try to find
a goal that day and better that goal.

Bonnie Blair

Know what you want to do--then do it.  Make straight
for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

Diana Scharf Hunt
A good goal is like a strenuous exercise--it makes you stretch.

Mary Kay Ash
 
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that
sort of thing is simply to have a good time.  But people get
so solemn over the process that they forget the end.

Don Marquis
 

Goals give direction to our lives.  We need to know who we are
and where we want to go.  But the trip itself, the steps we
travel, offer us daily satisfaction moment by moment--
fulfillment, if we'd but realize it.  Too often we keep our
sights on the goal's completion, rather than the process--the
day-to-day living that makes the completion possible.

unattributed
  
 

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret.  Whatever
your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey
 

The important thing
is to strive towards
a goal which is not
immediately visible.
That goal is not
the concern of
the mind, but of
the spirit.

Antoine de
Saint-Exupéry

   

The danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short,
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Michelangelo Buonarrati (attributed)

   
   
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory,
our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
    

To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal
is essential.  Many people fail at this vital point.  The goal must be definite and specific,
not in any sense vague or fuzzy.  And to prove attainable, its image needs to be
sharpened and resharpened continually, so that it stands out vividly in your thoughts.
You must know, at all times, precisely and for certain what it is you want to accomplish
and achieve.  Strong and organized purposefulness toward a definite objective
will focus your powers into a strong motivation in attainment of your goal.

Norman Vincent Peale

    

   

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays
quite impossible to foresee are ahead. . . . 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.

Kathleen Norris
   

When we have no goal, or when our vision of the goal is obscured,
we may lose our sense of purpose.  Even when we've prepared
ourselves well and have an aptitude for a given activity, poorly
directed efforts can rob us of vital energy.  We can spend a great
deal of our time, money, and other resources running around in
circles.  Unless we create specific goals that match our purpose
in life and unless we keep a clear vision of these goals,
we may eventually falter and fail.

John Marks Templeton
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