Motivational Quotes

Goals

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

Caddy, Eileen

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

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

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Schwartz, David J.

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Proverb, English

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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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 who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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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

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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.

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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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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah