Motivational Quotes

Goals

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

- Johnson, Percy H.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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!

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Laurence, Peter

11.

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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Seneca

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius