Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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.

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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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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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

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

Caddy, Eileen

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Seneca

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De