Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Stone, W. Clement

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

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

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

20.

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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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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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

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

31.

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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Dewey, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre