Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is no achievement without goals.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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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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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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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Dewey, John

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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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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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

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig