Setting Goals Quotes - Page 18

• An athlete who tells you the training is always easy and always fun simply hasn't been there. Goals can be elusive which makes the difficult journey all the more rewarding.

  Alberto Salazar

  Fun, Athlete, Journey

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• Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Goal, Fine Words, Development

  "Why Fighting Poverty and Hunger Is a Religious Duty" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  Madeleine Albright

  Running, School, Mean

  "Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat". Interview with Pat Mitchell, en.tiny.ted.com.

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• True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Spiritual, Goal, Aim

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• People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 30, 2017

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

  Jose Mourinho

  Football, Goal, Mind

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• I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

  James Naismith

  Basketball, Men, Goal

  James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.109, U of Nebraska Press

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• Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

  Nido R Qubein

  Light, Goal, Achievement

  Nido R. Qubein (1997). “Stairway to Success: The Complete Blueprint for Personal and Professional Achievement”, Wiley

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• No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

  Jessica Savitch

  Motivational, Monday, Sight

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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• Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

  LL Cool J

  Inspirational, Dream, Moving

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• I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

  Michael Phelps

  Thinking, Goal, Champion

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• Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment. It’s good to have a big – picture outlook, to set goals, to establish budgets and make plans, but if you’re always living in the future, you’re never really enjoying the present in the way God wants you to.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Goal, Worry

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

  George S. Patton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positivity

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