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

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

Brown, Les

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

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''

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Austin, Tracy

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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

11.

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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Seneca

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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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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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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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Proverb, English

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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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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Reed, Scott

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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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