Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Lake, Ricki

Best Quotes about Goals

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Lake, Ricki

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Robbins, Anthony

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

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

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

13.

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

Austin, Tracy

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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.

18.

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!

19.

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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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

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

24.

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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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

26.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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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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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

Reed, Scott

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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

37.

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

Brown, Les

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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

Collier, Robert

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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.

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon