Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlson, Curtis

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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

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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!

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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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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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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 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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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.

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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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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

Proverb, French

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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

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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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

Brown, Les

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Ruskin, John

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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John