Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Dodson, Fitzhugh

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Maxwell Maltz

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

10.

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

Louis Pasteur

11.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

12.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

13.

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

Friedsam, Michael

14.

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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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

16.

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!

17.

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

Austin, Tracy

18.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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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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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 better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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

38.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Prior, Matthew

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig