Thomas S. Monson Quotes

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful

Before you can get what you want, you have to know what you want,and make a game plan to get it

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

You can have the best product in the world, you can have the best motivation in the world, you can have best education in the world, you can have all the money in the world - but if you don't have direction, you'll never go anywhere.

You have to prepare well to ultimately get where you want to go.

Everybody got a dream. What's the plan?

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

A plan is a bridge to your dreams. Your job is to make the plan or bridge real, so that your dreams will become real. If all you do is stand on the side of the bank and dream of the other side, your dreams will forever be just dreams.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

Goal setting is fine if you want to be the warrior archetype. These people are setting goals constantly and trying to get someplace else. They say, "If you don't know where you are going, then you won't know when you get there."

Your ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

A goal without a plan is only a dream.

You gotta have goals!

My core philosophy on winning and motivation is summed up by saying that you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.

Knowing where you are going is the first step to getting there.

Without a goal there can be no real success.

A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat, but not too much, above his last achievement.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

Living a life is much like climbing mountains-the summits are always further off than you think, but when a man has a goal, he always feels he's working toward something.

GOALS are dreams with deadlines, and without those deadlines, our dreams are dead in the water.