Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Dewey, John

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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 straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Pilon, Rich

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Maxwell Maltz

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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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

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.