Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kissinger, Henry

Best Quotes about Goals

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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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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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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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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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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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

Proverb, English

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Browning, Robert

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim