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

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

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.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Carlson, Curtis

14.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

15.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Lee, Bruce

22.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Proverb, English

25.

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

Patton, George S.

26.

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

27.

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

Dewey, John

28.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

29.

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

30.

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

32.

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

Maxwell Maltz

33.

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

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Christina, Queen

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

37.

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

38.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

39.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Prior, Matthew

43.

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

Austin, Tracy

44.

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

45.

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

Stone, W. Clement

46.

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

Ruskin, John

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Brown, Les

50.

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

Friedsam, Michael