Goal-Oriented Mindset Quotes

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

The goals you don't set reveal the dreams you don't do.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

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

When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

A runner doesn't just show up and win a race. He trains long and hard. Do you just show up every day and hope to win?

Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance.

Pick a goal, make a realistic plan to reach that goal, work through each step of the plan, and repeat.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

Your ability to set and achieve goals is perhaps the most important skill you can ever develop.

Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.

We should never let ambition cause us to sacrifice our integrity or diminish our efforts in other areas. However, we need to remember that we never reach a serious goal unless we have the intention of doing so.

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.

I want to do the best I can right away. There's no point for me to just kind of be relaxed about it. Of course, in each match winning is out of my control, but I want to try to do the best I can as soon as I can, and I want to have 10 successful years and not five slow ones and then five good ones.

Expect the best; convert problems into opportunities; be dissatisfied with the status quo; focus on where you want to go, instead of where you're coming from; and most importantly, decide to be happy, knowing it's an attitude, a habit gained from daily practice, and not a result or payoff.

Throughout my athletic career, the overall goal was always to be a better athlete than I was at the moment – whether next week, next month or next year. The improvement was the goal. The medal was simply the ultimate reward for achieving that goal.

You will never be indecisive if you know your purpose.

I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.

The first thing I did was commit to my success and playing to win. I swore I would focus and not even consider leaving this business until I was a millionaire or more. This was radically different from my previous efforts, where, because I always thought short-term, I would constantly get side-tracked by either good opportunities or when things got tough.