Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Nightingale, Earl

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Insull, Samuel

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.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Kissinger, Henry

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Jackson, Bo

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, English

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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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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

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De