Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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.

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

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Seneca

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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

Menander of Athens

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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 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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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

Proverb, French

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

Brown, Les

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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.