Motivational Quotes

Goals

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Brown, Les

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Seneca

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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

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

23.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Dewey, John

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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.

35.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward