Motivational Quotes

Goals

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

26.

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

27.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.