Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robert Heinlein

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Seneca

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.

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

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Menander of Athens

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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Proverb, English

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

26.

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

27.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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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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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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

Publilius Syrus

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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