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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Berra, Yogi

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

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

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Menander of Athens

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

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

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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 yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Proverb, French

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

Browning, Robert

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

Patton, George S.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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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...