Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Mcdonald, John

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

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.

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

10.

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

Maxwell Maltz

11.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

12.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Prior, Matthew

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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 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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Pilon, Rich

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Caddy, Eileen

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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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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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie