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

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

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

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.

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

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

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.

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

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

I will be unhappy if I know I have not accomplished something I should have done that was possible.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

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

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

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.

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.

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

Everybody that’s successful lays a blueprint out.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Small aim is a crime.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.

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

I am results-oriented.

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

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I am not afraid of saying something and going and pursuing it. That’s it. I see it in my mind. I say it out loud. I go and do it.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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 starting point of all achievement is desire.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

Action expresses priorities.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.