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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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

Brown, Les

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)

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

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Collier, Robert

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Friedsam, Michael

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Christina, Queen

28.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

35.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

39.

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

Lee, Bruce

40.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

49.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Winfrey, Oprah