Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Kissinger, Henry

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.

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Prior, Matthew

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Collier, Robert

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Berra, Yogi

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

Dewey, John

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Proverb, English

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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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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

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

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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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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