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

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

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

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Berra, Yogi

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.

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

Publilius Syrus

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, English

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

Reed, Scott

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb