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

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

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

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

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

10.

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

Dewey, John

11.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

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

Proverb, English

14.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

15.

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

16.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

20.

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

Collier, Robert

21.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

23.

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

24.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

25.

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

26.

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

27.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

28.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

32.

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

33.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

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

Maxwell Maltz

35.

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

36.

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

Austin, Tracy

37.

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

38.

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

Ziglar, Zig

39.

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.

40.

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

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

45.

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

46.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

47.

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.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Schwartz, David J.