Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Goals

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Publilius Syrus

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Browning, Robert

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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''

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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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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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Proverb, English

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reed, Scott

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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

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

Austin, Tracy

33.

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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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

Proverb, French

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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.