Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Goals

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)

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

10.

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

11.

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

Lee, Bruce

12.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

13.

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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

17.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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

20.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

23.

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

24.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

25.

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 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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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

28.

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

29.

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

30.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Publilius Syrus

32.

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

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

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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Collier, Robert

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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.

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Browning, Robert

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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