Motivational Quotes

Goals

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''

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Demille, Nelson

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Reed, Scott

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

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

Dewey, John

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

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

Pilon, Rich

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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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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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Collier, Robert

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Maxwell Maltz

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Patton, George S.

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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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 are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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.