Motivational Quotes

Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Insull, Samuel

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

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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.

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

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

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Prior, Matthew

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

12.

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

Lee, Bruce

13.

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

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

18.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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

25.

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

Seneca

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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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.

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

34.

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.

35.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Kempis, Thomas