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

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

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Demille, Nelson

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

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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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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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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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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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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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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Seneca

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stone, W. Clement