Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Seneca

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Reed, Scott

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

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.

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

Louis Pasteur

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

10.

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

Johnson, Percy H.

11.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

12.

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

Austin, Tracy

13.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

14.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Prior, Matthew

16.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Berra, Yogi

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

22.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Winfrey, Oprah

27.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

28.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

29.

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

30.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

32.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

33.

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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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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

40.

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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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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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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

48.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

49.

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