Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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.

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Proverb, English

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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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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Reed, Scott

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

Brown, Les