Motivational Quotes

Goals

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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

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

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Publilius Syrus

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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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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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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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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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Dewey, John

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von