Achievement Goals Quotes

We are teaching kids to fail. We need to teach our kids to succeed.

I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.

My goal at every tournament is to finish top 18. At the end of the year if I could finish every tournament top 18, that would be pretty good.

Our demands are very high, very great, but I want to ask every player every day to give us more.

What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.

I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach.

Finishing races is important, but racing is more important.

I still have many goals left, especially the Overall World Cup standings.

I always try to associate Johnny Mundo, John Morrison, or whatever my name is with high quality.

You're not going to win a division, you're not going to win personal stats, titles, whatever, in the first month of the season.

The decisions that you make each day can actually catapult you to that next level of achievement.

In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.

People always think it's about money, money, money, but I just want to win trophies.

Even when I was playing, I never thought much about the individual honors. I wanted to go to the Super Bowl.

The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.

I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world's No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

I can imagine trying something else but I really feel very comfortable at Bayern. Every year there a new challenges and new objectives and the pressure will always be there.

I wouldn't say I'm a victim of high expectations. The expectations are going to be there.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

I had a lot of stats in college, and they didn't count for wins. So whatever it takes to win football games is the goal that I set.

To excel at the highest level - or any level, really - you need to believe in yourself, and hands down, one of the biggest contributors to my self-confidence has been private coaching.

I am satisfied with my achievements in terms of both development and welfare. I have not only lived up to most of the expectations of people, but also surpassed some of their expectations.

I want to prove to myself and everybody else how good I can be, and I'm willing to work as hard as I need to to achieve that goal.

And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.