Motivational Quotes

Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

- Abert, Geoffrey F.

Best Quotes about Goals

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Caddy, Eileen

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Proverb, English

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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 just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

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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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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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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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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

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Proverb, French

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Prior, Matthew

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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