Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Friedsam, Michael

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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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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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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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl