Motivational Quotes

Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Berra, Yogi

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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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 big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pilon, Rich

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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!

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Kafka, Franz