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

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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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Drucker, Peter F.

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Berra, Yogi

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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