Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is no achievement without goals.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Berra, Yogi

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Prior, Matthew

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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!

30.

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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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

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

Pilon, Rich

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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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

42.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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)