Hilary Knight Quotes

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.

It's very hard to motivate yourself and others with only one goal - particularly if it's complex and you might not get there until years down the road. That's why intermediate goals are so important.

But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

Too many athletes don't have the ability to set a goal and then carefully go towards it.

You achieve long-term success step by step. Try to achieve your goals one at a time, like you do target practice.

Clearly define what success means for you. Set short-term and quarterly career goals with your manager that will help lead you to your long term goals.

I always set small goals and work towards them to achieve them.

I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve them by. I was amazed when I started reaching these goals by the date I had listed on them. It was a daily visualization exercise, and it almost always works.

I set goals for myself every three months. I write them down.

In order to get to where I want to be, I have to do the right things off the field, first.

If I focus on the short-term goals, then the long-term goals are going to be in my favor.

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

I'm a firm believer in goal setting. Step by step. I can't see any other way of accomplishing anything.

When you develop a game plan to get what you want, you will develop a belief that you can get it.

If you plan it out, and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. I discovered the power of a plan.

You have to be the one setting your own goals, trying to achieve those goals.

I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.

Getting organized in the normal routines of life and finishing little projects you've started is an important first step toward realizing larger goals. If you can't get a handle on the small things, how will you ever get it together to focus on the big things?

If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

It's important in any project to remain focused.

People are remarkably bad at remembering long lists of goals. I learned this at a professional level when trying to get my high-performance coaching clients to stay on track; the longer their lists of to-dos and goals, the more overwhelmed and off-track they got. Clarity comes with simplicity.

I like to think I set aspirational but reasonable goals and encourage my team to achieve them.

Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.