Motivational Quotes

Goals

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

- Carlson, Curtis

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Brown, Les

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

Laurence, Peter

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.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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.

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

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!

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Jackson, Bo

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Seneca

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Friedsam, Michael

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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.

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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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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dewey, John

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

Thomas, Paul G.