Motivational Quotes

Goals

It is better to finish something than begin.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

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

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

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

Insull, Samuel

11.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Browning, Robert

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

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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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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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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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.

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

Dewey, John

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, English

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Kempis, Thomas

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle