Motivational Quotes

Goals

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

- Cook, Robert A.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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

11.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

12.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

13.

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

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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

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

Stone, W. Clement

18.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Austin, Tracy

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Josefowitz, Natasha