Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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 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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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

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

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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 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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Jackson, Bo

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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!

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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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.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Patton, George S.

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Seneca