Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

Expect me to continue what I’ve been doing, which is trying to take over the world.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

It’s really easy to have a nice philosophy about openness, but moving the world in that direction is a different thing. It requires both understanding where you want to go and being pragmatic about getting there.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Dream and you shall become.

I just want to do well with the national team.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you’re glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I’m chasing perfection.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.