Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Robert Heinlein

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

10.

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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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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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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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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!

45.

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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Seneca

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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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