Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Laurence, Peter

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Ziglar, Zig

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Patton, George S.

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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 big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, English

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

Brown, Les