Motivational Quotes

Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Maxwell Maltz

11.

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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Browning, Robert

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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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 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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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

42.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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