Motivational Quotes

Goals

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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)

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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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 paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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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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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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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

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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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!

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

Dewey, John

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Aristotle

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan