Motivational Quotes

Goals

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Goals

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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.

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Browning, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Otto, Herbert A.