Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Ziglar, Zig

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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

Collier, Robert

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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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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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

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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

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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 big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.