Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Collier, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

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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

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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

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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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

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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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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Denis Watley

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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.

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

Robert Heinlein

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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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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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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