M. Russell Ballard Quotes

It is important for you to have a goal. You simply can't get there if you don't know where you are going. Begin to build in your mind a dream. The write it down and make your goal realistic. Aim high enough that you will have to stretch your ability and your potential to reach it.

Decide what it is you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

Everybody comes in with a certain goal. Some are performance, some are aesthetic. Even athletes have aesthetic goals, but first and foremost, they have performance goals, and those need to be addressed. They have weaknesses that need to be shored up. You have to manage expectations sometimes.

The reason so many individuals fail to achieve their goals in life is that they never really set them in the first place

I don't usually set personal goals.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

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

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.

Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting

Goals have to be realistic and flexible.

To achieve a goal, a dream, a wish, you must plan it out for success!

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. Think on paper and write them down!

Writing down goals makes you think of what is achievable. It really makes you reflect on what you are today.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

I really believe in setting goals, no matter what it is: whether it's losing five pounds or making the world championship team.

If you're to fulfill your vision for a better life, you must formulate a plan of action. Effective planning involves identifying and prioritizing those actions that will move you most efficiently toward your goal.

A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary.

There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

A lot of people have already been impacted by the Life Cube Project and the principles behind it. They write to me and post on social media all the time, about their dreams coming true after writing them down, or how writing down their goals resonated with them.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

To reach your own goals and dreams, you must learn how to assist others in reaching theirs