Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Seneca

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

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.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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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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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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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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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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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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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

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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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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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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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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon