Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Winfrey, Oprah

Best Quotes about Goals

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

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

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

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

Stone, W. Clement

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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.

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Insull, Samuel