Motivational Quotes

Goals

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Christina, Queen

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

11.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

12.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

13.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Reed, Scott

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

18.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

21.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

22.

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

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

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

27.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

29.

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

Collier, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Noble, Charles C.

33.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

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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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

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

Proverb, English

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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

39.

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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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

42.

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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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