Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Ruskin, John

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

13.

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

19.

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

32.

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.