Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Friedsam, Michael

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Robert Heinlein

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Proverb, English

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

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

10.

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 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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Seneca

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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''

20.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

21.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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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

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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Laurence, Peter

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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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

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

43.

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

Reed, Scott

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von