Quotes on Setting Goals – Our Favorites


Quotes on Setting Goals – Our Favorites

As an action sports athlete, goals help you to succeed!  Quotes on setting goals help you to get motivated.  Goals give you something to measure yourself by, something to help you know when you’ve reached an achievement.  They are like the finish line of a race.  Whether you are running a 100 meter sprint to the Boston Marathon, or competing in a snowboarding slopestyle competition to a halfpipe competition, you need to cross the finish line at your best to gain a sense of accomplishment.

Here are some great quotes on setting goals:

A goal is a dream with a deadline. – Napoleon Hill


A goal properly set is halfway reached. – Zig Ziglar


Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. – John Dewey


Everybody has their own Mount Everest they were put on this earth to climb. – Seth Godin


Failures do what is tension relieving,while winners do what is goal achieving. – Dennis Waitley


In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success. – Victor Cousins


Your goal should be just out of reach, but not out of sight. – Denis Waitley and Remi Witt


It’s better to be at the bottom of the ladder you want to climb than at the top of the one you don’t. – Stephen Kellogg


quotes on setting goals

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. – Kahlil Gibran


The greater danger for most of us isn’t that our aim is too high and miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. – Michelangelo


Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk. – J.C. Penney


Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. – Pablo Picasso


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 always win out. – Ronald Reagan


Wild Child Sports Action Items

1.  Write a goal for yourself today.

2.  Refine your goals.

3.  Get to work!

4. Track your successes!

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