Motivational Quotes

Goals

You get what you set out to do.

- Hanson, John

Best Quotes about Goals

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

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

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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.

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

Pilon, Rich

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Reed, Scott

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

29.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Dewey, John

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

Prior, Matthew

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What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

45.

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

46.

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

Seneca

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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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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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

Caddy, Eileen