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

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Proverb, French

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Seneca

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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

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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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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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

Reed, Scott

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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