Motivational Quotes

Goals

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Goals

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

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

Seneca

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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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 big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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