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

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

Christina, Queen

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

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

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Brown, Les

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Laurence, Peter

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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

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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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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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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.

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

Robert Heinlein

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Brown, Les

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Lake, Ricki

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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)

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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.