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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

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

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

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

17.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

18.

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

Browning, Robert

19.

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

20.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

21.

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

Schwartz, David J.

22.

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

25.

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

Pasteur, Louis

26.

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

27.

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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

30.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Publilius Syrus

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

33.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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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

40.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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

42.

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

44.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

45.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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