Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Goals

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Brown, Les

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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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

18.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Brown, Les

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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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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 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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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

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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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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.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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.

Hansen, Rick

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.