Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Austin, Tracy

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

10.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

12.

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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

15.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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

17.

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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Proverb, French

29.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

36.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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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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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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

Laurence, Peter

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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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''