Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Goals

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

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Lee, Bruce

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Browning, Robert

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Austin, Tracy

11.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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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

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lake, Ricki

27.

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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!

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Seneca

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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles 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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Publilius Syrus

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

46.

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

Laurence, Peter

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew