Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, English

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Schwartz, David J.

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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

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

Dewey, John

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl