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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

10.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

11.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

12.

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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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

17.

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

Proverb, English

18.

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

19.

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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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

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

Dewey, John

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

23.

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

Seneca

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

33.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Patton, George S.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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''

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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)

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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.