Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Collier, Robert

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Aristotle

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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 I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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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

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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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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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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

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

Laurence, Peter

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.