Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Dewey, John

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!

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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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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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Pasteur, Louis

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Browning, Robert

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb, English