Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Patton, George S.

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

Jackson, Bo

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

11.

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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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Browning, Robert

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

Brown, Les

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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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.

23.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

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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

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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

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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

31.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

32.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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!

40.

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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