Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Publilius Syrus

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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

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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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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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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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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

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