Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Pilon, Rich

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

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

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

Seneca

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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

Reed, Scott

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

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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)

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

Laurence, Peter

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Proverb, French

24.

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

Proverb, English

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Collier, Robert

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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.

42.

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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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.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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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.