Motivational Quotes

Goals

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

- Laurence, Peter

Best Quotes about Goals

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

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

10.

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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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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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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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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

Proverb, English

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Demille, Nelson

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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 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

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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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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

Austin, Tracy

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Goals determine what you're going to be.