Realistic Goals Quotes:

I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.

- Evan Longoria

topic: Goal, Realistic, Realistic Goals

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

- Teri Garr

topic: Wisdom, Errors, Goal, Realistic Goals

Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

- Jurgen Habermas

source: "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, and Jürgen Habermas, p. 34, 2003.

topic: Goal, Cynical, Terrorism, Exploitation, Complex Systems

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

- Rick Hansen

source: Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

topic: Goal, Challenges, Impossible, Inspirational Goal, Motivation Goal Setting

Focus on what it is that you want, set a realistic goal. Start setting goals that you feel you can accomplish. Don't try to go right to the top in one leap. Every time you accomplish a goal you develop the strength and wisdom to accomplish the next one.

- Chuck Norris

source: Interview with Geoff Thompson, www.physicalarts.com.

topic: Goal, Focus, Trying, Strength And Wisdom, Realistic Goals

If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

topic: Education, Hard Work, Thinking, Lasting Change, Long Lasting

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Inspiring, Success, Time, Management Motivation, Managing Time

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

- George Lucas

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Achieving Your Goals, Goal Achievement

If you don't know where you're going any road will do

- Lewis Carroll

topic: Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams, Humpty Dumpty, Management Motivation

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

topic: Lost, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel, Good Thoughts

You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Pursue Your Dreams, Management Motivation

If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

- Watts Humphrey

source: Watts S. Humphrey (1989). “Managing the Software Process”, Addison-Wesley Professional

topic: Maps, Helping, Where You Are, Management Motivation, Managing Time

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Where You Are, Standing, Management Motivation, Managing Time, Solo Travel

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Thinking, Goal, Would Be, Realistic Goals

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

- Sarah T. Bolton

topic: Motivational, Work, Victory, Motivation Goal Setting, Victory And Success

Goals should be realistic, attainable, and shared among all members of the team

- Mike Krzyzewski

topic: Basketball, Team, Goal, Best Coaches, Realistic Goals

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them.

- Og Mandino

topic: Motivation, Inspiration, Goal, Motivation Goal Setting, Tedious

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

- John Wooden

topic: Wrestling, Organization, Goal, Realistic Goals

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

- Tim Ferriss

topic: Lonely, Ninety Nine, People, Lonely At The Top, Realistic Goals

Realizing your goal, resolution, or transformation is a journey. Change, like any meaningful endeavor, proceeds sequentially through steps. The journey begins with the contemplation stage of specifying realistic goals, getting ready, or getting psyched. The planning stage is all about prepping. How exactly will I do this thing? At some point you will jump from preparing and planning to perspiring, the work of implementing the new, desired behavior. Getting there is wonderful, but we need to keep you there, which entails persevering through slips and, finally, persisting over time.

- John C. Norcross

topic: Meaningful, Journey, Goal, Journey Begins, Realistic Goals

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.

- Drew Brees

topic: Football, Inspiration, Goal, Realistic Goals

The goals for Virginia lacrosse don't change a lot from year to year. We look at the lineup, start every year on Sept. 1 with the realistic goal to play at the end of the season, the very last game. This team has the talent to be able to do that.

- Dom Starsia

topic: Team, Virginia, Years, Realistic Goals

Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

topic: Order, Psychics, Skills, Optimal, Achieving Happiness

There's no better feeling, even if I've won a race, than recording a personal best. It's setting yourself personal goals, but also realistic goals.

- Jenny Meadows

source: Source: www.bbc.co.uk

topic: Race, Goal, Feelings, Personal Best, Personal Goal

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

- Ted Ligety

topic: Change, Sports, Running, One Chance, Realistic Goals

Winning a championship is now a legitimate and realistic goal.

- Danny Ainge

topic: Winning, Goal, Championship, Realistic Goals

We're human beings trying to understand and cultivate what it means to feel divine love. We have to start with small, realistic goals.

- Surya Das

source: Lama Surya Das (2010). “Awakening To The Sacred”, p.102, Random House

topic: Spiritual, Mean, Goal, Realistic Goals

Technically speaking, since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents,they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities. These disruptions can, with minimum expense, have considerably destructive consequences. Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems.

- Jurgen Habermas

source: "Philosophy in a Time of Terror". Book by Giovanna Borradori, Jacques Derrida, Jürgen Habermas, 2003.

topic: Opportunity, Goal, Cynical, Complex Systems, Interference

A tough manager will have realistic quotas for his employees that he keeps to himself and aggressively stretch quotas, anywhere from ten percent higher to a lot more, which he imposes on his staff. If his people miss the stretch numbers but exceed the realistic goals, he's happy. If he's a superb manager, he knows how far they can stretch without breaking.

- Twyla Tharp

source: Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Leadership, Numbers, Goal, Realistic Goals

Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their background is. The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.

- Roy Romer

topic: Country, Teacher, Children, Realistic Goals

I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy and realistic goals. I am so thoroughly convinced that if we don’t set goals in our life and learn how to master the technique of living to reach our goals, we can reach a ripe old age and look back on our life only to see that we reached but a small part of our full potential. When you learn to master the principle of setting a goal, you will then be able to make a great difference in the results you attain in this life.

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Believe, Skills, Differences, Positive Thinker, Realistic Goals

Set realistic goals short and long term. 2. Plan an orderly and thorough routine to train the entire body. 3. Make a commitment to stick to your routine for four to six weeks to realize the changes and benefits, develop perseverance and create a habit. 4. Establish enthusiasm for your training, the driving force to perform successfully. 5. Ease into an appropriate training program with a wholesome, thoughtful nutritional plan: proper foods, amounts and order of consumption. 6. Be confident from the beginning that the application of these sound principles will produce the desired results.

- Dave Draper

topic: Perseverance, Commitment, Thoughtful, Realistic Goals, Training Programs

In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

- Michael Shanks

source: Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 7, 2004.

topic: Science, Years, Goal, Realistic Goals