Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- DeFrantz, Anita

Best Quotes about Goals

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

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

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

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.

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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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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

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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

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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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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.

32.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Reed, Scott

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

Proverb, English

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

Maxwell Maltz

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dewey, John

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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