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

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

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

Proverb, French

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, English

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Reed, Scott

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Browning, Robert

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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Seneca

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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 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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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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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.