Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

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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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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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!

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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.