Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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!

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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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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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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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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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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

Austin, Tracy

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Seneca

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig