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

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

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Brown, Les

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Ruskin, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.