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

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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Earl

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!

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

10.

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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 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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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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prior, Matthew

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Browning, Robert

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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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

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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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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Publilius Syrus

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