Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Aristotle

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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

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

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

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

Brown, Les

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Dewey, John

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, French

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

Berra, Yogi

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

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

Prior, Matthew