Motivational Quotes

Goals

You can plant a dream.

- Campbell, Anne

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Austin, Tracy

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

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

10.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

11.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

12.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

13.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

15.

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

Browning, Robert

16.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

17.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

18.

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

Stone, W. Clement

19.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

20.

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

21.

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

Lee, Bruce

22.

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

Maxwell Maltz

24.

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

25.

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

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

27.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

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.

33.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

34.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

35.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Seneca

39.

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

40.

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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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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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

43.

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

Collier, Robert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

48.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

49.

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

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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