Motivational Quotes

Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Lee, Bruce

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Browning, Robert

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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.

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Berra, Yogi

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Proverb, English

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg