Stephen Covey Goal Quotations

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Begin with the end in mind.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

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

An effective goal focuses primarily on results rather than activity. It identifies where you want to be, and, in the process, helps you determine where you are. It gives you important information on how to get there, and it tells you when you have arrived. It unifies your efforts and energy. It gives meaning and purpose to all you do.

The best way to develop courage is to set a goal and achieve it, make a promise and keep it.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.