Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Robert Heinlein

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Otto, Herbert A.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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