Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Seneca

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

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.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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.

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

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

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

12.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

13.

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.

14.

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

Austin, Tracy

15.

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

16.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

19.

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

Reed, Scott

20.

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

Prior, Matthew

21.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Collier, Robert

24.

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

25.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

27.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

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''

29.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

30.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

31.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

34.

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

35.

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

Lee, Bruce

36.

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

37.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

38.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

39.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

49.

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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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