"No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one."

"My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals."

"To go out there and play and have fun and hopefully win a championship. That's my goal."

"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."

"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

"When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb."

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible"

"Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope."

"I think the American Dream used to be achieving one's goals in your field of choice - and from that, all other things would follow. Now, I think the dream has morphed into the pursuit of money: Accumulate enough of it, and the rest will follow."

"I've led a life of such structured discipline and always had a goal in mind of knowing what I was doing, from West Point to the Air Force combat, MIT, looking for new things to study and get involved in. And then I got into the space program, and how disciplined can you get?"

"To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself."

"Our goal is to work against things we have not seen that we will see in the near future."

"The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment."

"Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit."

"Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and highleverage activities organize around them."

"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."

"If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it."

Very often, the biggest hurdle in reaching a goal is getting started. And the second biggest hurdle is getting started in the right direction. 

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life." 

"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you." 

Set a goal that's meaningful and compelling enough, and your skills, your knowledge and your effectiveness will expand in order to reach that goal. 

Without a solid, realistic and detailed plan, the goal is nothing more than a pipe dream. And without the commitment to follow through on that plan and put forth the necessary effort, the dream is nothing more than a good intention. 

Think big when you set your goals. Dare to think big and then set a series of smaller goals to get you there. 

Not having goals is like having no idea where you want to go when you step up to an airline counter to buy a ticket.