Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Austin, Tracy

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Demille, Nelson

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

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Johnson, Percy H.

31.

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Collier, Robert

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

Dewey, John

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.