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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

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

Patton, George S.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Louis Pasteur

10.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

11.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

12.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

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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

17.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

18.

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.

19.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

20.

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

Jackson, Bo

21.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Proverb, English

23.

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

25.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

29.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

30.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

31.

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

34.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz