Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Josefowitz, Natasha

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Prior, Matthew

11.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

12.

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

Brown, Les

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Collier, Robert

16.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Patton, George S.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

36.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim