Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Patton, George S.

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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.

14.

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

15.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

21.

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

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Noble, Charles C.

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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

Proverb, English

26.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

27.

The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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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!

29.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

30.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

31.

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

32.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

Dewey, John

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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

42.

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

43.

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

Collier, Robert

44.

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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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

47.

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

48.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

49.

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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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