Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

Goal-setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life.

Think about your goals and review them daily. Every morning when you begin, take action on the most important task you can accomplish to achieve your most important goal at the moment.

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.

Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

You can accomplish virtually any goal you set for yourself, as long as the goal is clear and you persist long enough.

The more goals you set, the more goals you get.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

If you don't execute on your plans, then you don't reach anywhere.

If you don't set goals, you'll never reach them. Or like they say in golf, if you aim for nothing, you'll hit it every time. Take any player in the major leagues: I'd say just about everyone of them had a dream - a goal - to be a big-leaguer when they were kids. It wasn't an easy goal, but it was a reachable one, and that's important.

Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.

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

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

In order not to end up like the masses out there who are merely wandering and unsure of their goals and dreams, your objective must be clear. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.

The more clearly defined and keenly desired your goals, the more of your natural creativity will be released for goal attainment.

The simple act of writing down a goal and making a written plan for its accomplishment moves you to the top 3 percent.

The more clarity you have, the more powerful your goals are.

Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.

The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

If you have a clear goal and a plan to achieve it, your focus is fixed on a set course of action. Instead of becoming sidetracked by distractions and diversions, your time is focused on a straight line from start to finish.

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.