3,137 Quotes About Goals

How do we best harness our curiosity while reducing the risk of failure? We set goals. When set with intention, goals can provide structure, direction, focus, and purpose.

Focus on what is most important. Find what truly matters to you. Realign your life with new priorities. Find a new vision, new goals, and a clearer path. Everything else will begin to fall away.

Goals are a promise to yourself and others that you can deliver.

Far too often my priorities become the things that are right in front of me rather than being the things that create the foundation underneath me.

A true BHAG (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals) is clear and compelling, serves as a unifying focal point of effort, and acts as a catalyst for team spirit. It has a clear finish line, so the organization can know when it has achieved the goal; people like to shoot for finish lines. A BHAG engages people—it reaches out and grabs them. It is tangible, energizing, highly focused. People get it right away; it takes little or no explanation.

To create an effective envisioned future requires a certain level of unreasonable confidence and commitment. Keep in mind that a BHAG is not just a goal; it is a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal.

You’ll blame your conditions, others will blame your decisions.

It’s not only the audacity of the goal but also the level of commitment to the goal that counts.

If you have a target but can’t shoot arrows, you are not any different from those who can shoot arrows but have no target.