Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Patton, George S.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

Jackson, Bo

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Christina, Queen

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

Proverb, English

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Reed, Scott

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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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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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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

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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