Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Pilon, Rich

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Seneca

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

Austin, Tracy

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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

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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

Carlson, Curtis

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ruskin, John

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

Proverb, French

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Seneca

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

Schwartz, David J.