Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Noble, Charles C.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand