Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

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

Jackson, Bo

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

16.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Kafka, Franz

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

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

20.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

21.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

22.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

23.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

24.

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

Collier, Robert

25.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

26.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

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

28.

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

Friedsam, Michael

29.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

30.

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

Pilon, Rich

31.

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

32.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

33.

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.

34.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

40.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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.

45.

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

Laurence, Peter

46.

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

47.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

48.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.