Motivational Quotes

Goals

It is better to finish something than begin.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Goals

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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''

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

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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

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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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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Mcdonald, 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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.