Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Caddy, Eileen

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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

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!

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Proverb, English

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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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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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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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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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

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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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De