Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Seneca

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

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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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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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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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Jackson, Bo

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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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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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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 must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Seneca

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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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