Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Nightingale, Earl

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Browning, Robert

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

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Austin, Tracy

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

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

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.

Louis Pasteur

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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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 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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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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Lakein, Alan

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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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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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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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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.

Williams, Ted

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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

Brown, Les

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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

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

Brown, Les