Motivational Quotes

Goals

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Patton, George S.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Proverb, English

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

DeFrantz, Anita

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

10.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

11.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

12.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

13.

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.

14.

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

Kissinger, Henry

15.

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

Pasteur, Louis

16.

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Ruskin, John

20.

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

Berra, Yogi

21.

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

Nightingale, Earl

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

24.

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

25.

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

26.

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

Jackson, Bo

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

29.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

30.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

31.

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

Seneca

32.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

33.

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

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

36.

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

37.

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

38.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

39.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

40.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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!

44.

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

45.

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

Seneca

46.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Christina, Queen