Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Dewey, John

11.

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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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Prior, Matthew

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

20.

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

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

Aristotle

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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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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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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.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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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 care where you're going any road will get you there

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

Seneca

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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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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