"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Clarity is probably 95 percent of success."

- Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course."

- James Clear, Atomic Habits

"An average person with average talent and ambition and average education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society if that person has clear, focused goals."

- Mary Kay Ash

"Do something every day that moves you toward your most important goal."

- Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Essentially, the self-image governs how successful any individual becomes because it motivates and shapes work ethic and effort. In this way, self-image is like a thermostat. Human beings are the same way: we neither outperform nor underperform our self-image for long. That’s why it is so important to set your self-image gauge high enough to achieve your life goals."

- Jason Selk, Executive Toughness

"Decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying."

- Amelia Earhart

"Among experiments in the field, 90 percent confirm that productivity is enhanced by well-defined, challenging goals."

- John Doerr, Measure What Matters

"Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve."

- Mary Kay Ash

"A University of Scranton study found that people who made public New Year’s resolutions were a remarkable ten times more likely to succeed at their goal (e.g., quitting smoking, improving their relationships, becoming a vegetarian, etc.) than those who had not."

- Sonja Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness

"A study by the Association for Talent Development found that you’ve got a 65 percent chance of completing a goal if you commit to someone. Add a specific accountability appointment and you’ll increase your chances of success by up to 95 percent." - Marie Forleo, Everything Is Figureoutable

"Dare to dream big dreams. Fill yourself with the faith that nothing is impossible for 'whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve.' Then take action to make it come true."

- Napoleon Hill, The Science of Success

"A powerful vision emerges when we couple our dreams with a set of clear goals."

- Lewis Howes

"A goal unachieved is merely a problem unsolved. The only thing that stands between you and anything you want in life is an obstacle or a difficulty of some kind."

— Brian Tracy, Time Management

"Become the person you need to be to achieve what you want to achieve."

— Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula

"A goal that is not committed to paper is no goal at all."

— Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

"...the simple act of writing down a goal increases your chances of reaching it. Your odds are better still if you monitor progress while sharing the goal."

— John Doerr, Measure What Matters

“The primary purpose of having a goal - a future purpose - is to enhance enjoyment of the present.”

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan."

– Tom Landry