Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Lee, Bruce

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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)

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Patton, George S.

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

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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

Jackson, Bo

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Proverb, French

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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.

Aristotle

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre