Motivational Quotes

Goals

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Goals

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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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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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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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem 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

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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

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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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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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Reed, Scott

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Proverb, English

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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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

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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Browning, Robert