Goal-Oriented Behavior Quotes

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish - not sit intending on a chair.

In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success.

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

Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.

Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action.

When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, "Never keep your mind aler.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Dont just go there and play. Go there and play with pride and show your ambitions.

Let no act be done without purpose.

Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take.

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

Only three percent of adults have written goals, and everyone else works for them.

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

The whole idea of motivation is a trap, forget motivation, just do it

Successful action tends to become an end in itself.

When the journey from means to end is not too long, the means themselves are enjoyed if the end is ardently desired.

There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another ... All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.