Motivational Quotes

Goals

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

- Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Brown, Les

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Laurence, Peter

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Collier, Robert

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

Pilon, Rich

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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.