Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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

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

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Seneca

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

Prior, Matthew

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Proverb, French

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

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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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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Menander of Athens

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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.