Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Thomas, Paul G.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Brown, Les

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Patton, George S.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Robbins, Anthony

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

Austin, Tracy

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

17.

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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Proverb, English

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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

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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

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Lake, Ricki

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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.