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

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

18.

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

19.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Browning, Robert

26.

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

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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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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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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Dewey, John

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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

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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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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Brown, Les

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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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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.

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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

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

Insull, Samuel

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Louis Pasteur

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

46.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Laurence, Peter

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