GOALS/PRIORITIES

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things...I am tempted to think there are no little things." -Bruce Barton

"Goals are important, but it’s important to understand that people are not defined by their goals and whether or not they reach them. A win or a loss does not make you or me a better or worse human being. This is where, in our society, we’ve so easily lost perspective on the truth about who we are. We have to separate who we are from what we do." -Jim Tressel

“Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.” -John Maxwell

“We can differ and still unite around common goals.” –Dr. Martin Luther King

"It's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal that will enable you to attain the success you seek."  -Mario Andretti

“A man has to have goals – for a day, for a lifetime – and that was mine, to have people say, ‘There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.’” -Ted Williams

“All things are created twice. There’s a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you’ve thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.” -Stephen Covey

“Goals are important in leadership.  They should be realistic, they should be attainable, and they should be shared among all members of the team.  Some people use the term “common” goals.  But prefer the word “shared” because it’s uncommon to have shared goals.” –Mike Krzyzewski

"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high." -Henry David Thoreau

“I have no individual goals.  We play for one reason and that’s to win the title. Practice is more important than the games, and I will practice when I’m hurt, when 95 percent of the players in this league would sit out. I expect all of you to do the same thing. You will follow my lead.” -Michael Jordan

“Meeting a goal takes dedication, effort and sacrifice and all that it takes to turn a goal into a dream is TIME.” -Craig Lock

“Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals” -Jim Rohn

"Good teams always have common goals. When you find that goals of certain members differ from the team's, then the team will usually do poorly." –Red Auerbach

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us: concentrate our energy." -Denis Waitley

"Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan." -Paul Meyer

"Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals." -Aristotle

"To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." -Earl Nightingale

"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life." -Les Brown-

"A goal properly set is halfway reached." -Zig Ziglar

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” -Jim Rohn

"Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their tasks around goals. Think effectiveness with people; efficiency with things." -Stephen Covey

"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal." -Zig Ziglar

“Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you toward them.” -Mark Victor Hansen

“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.” -Henry David Thoreau

“If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.” -Jim Rohn

“Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs.” -Mario Andretti

“The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.” -Og Mandino

"Success is goals, and all else is commentary.  All successful people are intensely goal oriented.  They know what they want and they focus single-mindedly on achieving it, every single day." –Brian Tracy

"I’ve never set goals of wins and losses… I would rather define success for my team than to have a goal or other people define it for us." -Mike Krzyzewski

“Setting goals is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving them, and then staying with that plan." –Tom Landry

“We always make sure that our plans for the season can be achieved. Setting goals is incredibly important to success. But if you set a goal that seems impossible to achieve— if you go into a year saying your goal is to win the national championship—then you risk losing morale, self-discipline and chemistry if you falter early.” –Pat Summitt

"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never scoring." -Bill Copeland

“The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.” -Robert McKain

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done. I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” -Peter Drucker

“The reason most goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first.” -Robert McKain

“And the only way to ensure you become a winner is to set goals every day, and hold yourself and your teammates accountable for reaching those goals. Setting up a system that rewards you for meeting your goals and has penalties for failing to hit your target is just as important as putting your goals down on paper.” –Pat Summitt

“Do something every single day that moves you in the direction of your most important goal at the moment.” –Brian Tracy

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Set a goal that stretches you, requires exceptional effort, but one that you can reach.” –Pat Summitt