Motivational Quotes

Goals

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Friedsam, Michael

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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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

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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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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

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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