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

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Brown, Les

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

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

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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.

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Reed, Scott

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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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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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Brown, Les

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Jackson, Bo

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

28.

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

46.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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