Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Dewey, John

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)

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

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Robert Heinlein

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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

11.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

12.

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

Pilon, Rich

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Stone, W. Clement

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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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

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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.