Motivational Quotes

Goals

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

- Konigsburg, E. L.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Seneca

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Johnson, Percy H.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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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.

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Pilon, Rich

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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 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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

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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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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Christina, Queen

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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

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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!

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Browning, Robert

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

Laurence, Peter

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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.