Quotes & Sayings About Achievement Goals

There is only one way to success, wealth and achievement and that is through a lot of hard work. — John Patrick Hickey

The greatest power in the world is choice. — John Patrick Hickey

Self -developments helps you to set and achieve goals — Sunday Adelaja

Anyone who is so busy that they do not have time to enjoy what life has for them are just too busy. — John Patrick Hickey

You must consciously and carefully write out a plan of achieving your goals — Sunday Adelaja

Large bodies of goal achievement research encourage written goals for good reason. When we write down our goals, we transform what we imagine into reality. — Gina Greenlee

Success means you have succeeded in overcoming the obstacles and finally realizing the goal. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to achieve success, there cannot be a Plan B. — John Patrick Hickey

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything. — Jules Michelet

Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. — Paulo Coelho

There should be momentum created for achievement of goals by 2022. When we celebrate the 75th anniversary of freedom we should achieve targets — Narendra Modi

I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you. — Eleanor Brownn

Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams. — John Patrick Hickey

It is tempting to quit striving toward a goal when you have neither the time, the resources, the support, the means, nor perhaps the confidence in talent to reach the level of standing you wish to reach. But these are not reasons to quit. Move forward anyway. Try your best. Put what little you do have into accomplishing what you can, because along the way you may attain a portion of what you feel is lacking. And owning a portion of a dream is better than owning no dream at all. Never give up. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Dreams must be chased, for if we wait for them to chase us we will live a life of waiting. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

You must learn everything that will help you achieve your goals — Sunday Adelaja

To tear down silos, leaders must go beyond behaviors and address the contextual issues at the heart of departmental separation and politics. The purpose of this book is to present a simple, powerful tool for addressing those issues and reducing the pain that silos cause. And that pain should not be underestimated. Silos - and the turf wars they enable - devastate organizations. They waste resources, kill productivity, and jeopardize the achievement of goals. But beyond all that, they exact a considerable human toll too. They cause frustration, stress, and disillusionment by forcing employees to fight bloody, unwinnable battles with people who should be their teammates. There is perhaps no greater cause of professional anxiety and exasperation - not to mention turnover - than employees having to fight with people in their own organization. Understandably and inevitably, this bleeds over into their personal lives, affecting family and friends in profound ways. — Patrick Lencioni

This is why, if I may be forgiven a digression, I believe it is time for the black race to forget about rhetoric and instead show what we are capable of doing. The testing will surely go on for the next generation and the next, but each time we meet the test, we'll climb another rung of the ladder until finally we arrive at parity, having earned our place rather than pleading or demanding that it be given to us. — Yvonne S. Thornton

The key to success is having no qualms about failure. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Thus, in achieving ones goals, one improves, develops and discovers his potentials — Sunday Adelaja

Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves. — George Alexiou

I've wanted to win at everything, every day, since I was a kid. And time doesn't change a person, it just helps you get a handle on who you are. Even at age 41, I still hate losing
I'm just more gracious about it. I'm also aware that setbacks have an upside; they fuel new dreams. — Dara Torres

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us. — Jack Canfield

Touch your goals everyday which entails carrying out a part of the plan to reach your goals within the time limit you have set — Sunday Adelaja

Nothing happens without action! — John Patrick Hickey

A dream comes from within you. It is what you were created to do, so it has always been there. — John Patrick Hickey

The answer is in your dreams, the ones you dream while you're asleep and the ones you dream while you're awake. — Toni Sorenson

There is a time for everything. There is a time for a leader to allow those over whom he has authority to demonstrate what they are about and their capabilities. There also is a time for a leader to utilize knowledge garnered while silent to bring about stability in interpersonal relationships within the context of the achievement of organizational goals or institutional objectives. — Oghenovo Obrimah

I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school were really very helpful in what I did later on. — Alan Shepard

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Take a daily action towards the achievement of your desired goals. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Here is one of the biggest reasons why keeping your goals in your mind only is dangerous: your brain leaks! — John Patrick Hickey

All great people had experienced dark times and moments of doubt but they find inner strength to overcome these difficulties. Persistent determination and enthusiasm fuel the hope within their spirit to press forward for the ultimate aim of achieving the goals they have set for themselves. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The hallmark of great dreams is not their possibility but their impossibility, and the fact that it is the very notion of the 'impossible' that inspires us to go and accomplish them anyway. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. — Norman Vincent Peale

Through hard work and responsible approach you achieve your goals — Sunday Adelaja

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement — Denis Waitley

Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life - purpose - is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife ... — Denis Waitley

Each person has the potential to be good and productive, yet I also know that many people never begin to tap their true potential. It is human nature to surrender to the lowest common denominator. We must purposely strive to move ahead and achieve. — John Patrick Hickey

Success-minded people know that nothing is without a reason. — John Patrick Hickey

To ask, 'How do you do it?' is already starting off on the wrong foot. When reaching for the stars, there does not have to be a 'how' if there is a big enough 'why'. — Criss Jami

Nothing builds up your attitude like gratitude. You cannot be depressed, negative, and grateful at the same time. — John Patrick Hickey

Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out. — John Patrick Hickey

Always remember, success leaves clues. — John Patrick Hickey

It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals. — Fred Allen

I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Every achievement worth remembering is stained with the blood of diligence and scarred by the wounds of disappointment — Charles Swindoll

He who takes his eyes off the goal has a good chance of not scoring!" - Allan Rufus -
learningcentre (dot)transformationcoach(dot)help/wp — Allan Rufus

You have to work harder to achieve your goals — Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals. — Charles J. Givens

Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things. — John Patrick Hickey

Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be. — John Patrick Hickey

Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to success. It will bring you a calmness that will improve your attitude and your relationships with others. — Auliq Ice

Your thoughts, the way you think is the most powerful influence in your life. — John Patrick Hickey

Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself. — John Patrick Hickey

If you are serious about your goals and you truly desire to achieve your dreams, you must write them down. — John Patrick Hickey

I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action. — John Patrick Hickey

Overcoming the pain of self-discipline, we achieve our goals and move towards our dreams — Sunday Adelaja

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day. — George Alexiou

Goals need to build like a fire. It starts as a flame consuming all you put into it and burns hotter and hotter the more you work at it. — John Patrick Hickey

If you believe that success is only connected to money, you will not last long. — John Patrick Hickey

With God, the word 'impossible' is itself impossible. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Receiving both the Coretta Scott King - Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award suggests I have succeeded, at least in terms of my own goals, in my intent to make art that moves children. — Jerry Pinkney

Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on. — John Patrick Hickey

A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! — Deeba Salim Irfan

We should get rid of these restricting attitudes and system of beliefs in order to remove obstacles in our way to the achievements of our goals and revealing our potential — Sunday Adelaja

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency. — Denzel Washington

I love to write. But it has never gotten any easier to do and you can't expect it to if you keep trying for something better than you can do. — Ernest Hemingway,

To get it done
and see it thru,
find less to say
and more to do. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek. — John Patrick Hickey

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set. — Charles Stanley

Money can be the reward for efforts, but it should not be the reason for them. You must have something bigger than that. — John Patrick Hickey

God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you. — John Patrick Hickey

someday goals become never days of achievement — Colin Myles

Successful people have always been the ones to learn from the mistakes of others as well as from their successes. — John Patrick Hickey

Our head is there to facilitate our coming to an understanding of our purpose and setting the necessary goals to achieve that purpose — Sunday Adelaja

All energy given to us for the achievements of goals and self-actualization is instead spent on deriving acceptance from our surroundings and compliance with the requirements of the society — Sunday Adelaja

Our body is the vehicle that we are given for our journey and if we do not take care of it, we will find ourselves broken down on the side of the road facing costly and time-consuming repairs. — John Patrick Hickey

Writing out a goal allows us to see it in words. It creates a statement that does not change; it is something that we can go back to repeatedly for direction and clarity. — John Patrick Hickey

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. — George Lucas

Asking questions is not a matter of weakness or of being uninformed. In fact, people who ask a lot of questions tend to achieve more and learn more than those who do not. — John Patrick Hickey

Try to turn as many soft, aspirational goals as possible into success criteria, and make them specific enough that you can actually tell whether or not you've met them. — Erin Kissane

Don't be fearless, but tame your fears, and stop at nothing. — Abhijit Naskar

Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare separated by irreconcilable differences ... the enactment of animal welfare measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights ... Welfare reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which animal rights goals are achieved. — Gary L. Francione

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement. — Willard Libby

Success-minded people tend to be successful, confident, and friendly because they act successful, confident and friendly. People feel comfortable around positive people because positive people feel comfortable with themselves. — John Patrick Hickey

Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will. — John Patrick Hickey

When you set a goal, you have a responsibility to yourself to see it through. No matter how impossible it may seem, resolve to accomplish it. — Jaha Knight

The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. — John Patrick Hickey

Belief in yourself comes from a positive attitude that sees life as worth living and that you have a wonderful part to play in it. — John Patrick Hickey

The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream. — John Patrick Hickey

Concentrate on your goals. Do not allow other thoughts to enter your mind. If you allow them to, other things could take your concentration away from your ultimate aim. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The big thinking gives us vision, power and direction, but it is the small steps that are the action of the process. — John Patrick Hickey

If you know who you are and know that you live to achieve goals in keeping with who you are, it does not matter if people give you compliments or not — Sunday Adelaja

It is today that tells you if you learned from yesterday, and if tomorrow is possible. — John Patrick Hickey

If you are not able to see your goals, they will take longer to achieve, and sometimes "longer" is "never. — Honoree Corder

Knowing the superiors' intentions, however, is a prerequisite for the successful employment of the famous Auftragstaktik, a cornerstone of the German military culture that will be more closely discussed later. Moltke the Elder is one of the earliest proponents of this revolutionary concept. As early as 1858 he remarked at the annual Great General Staff war games, which were traditionally held in a different part of Germany every year, that "as a rule an order should contain only what the subordinate for the achievement of his goals cannot determine on his own."52 Everything else was to be left to the commander on the spot. — Jorg Muth

Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals.
It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment ...
Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals ... — Manoj Arora

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal. — Kitt Weagant

Those who care how they look care how they live and they will be the achievers. — John Patrick Hickey