Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

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Best Quotes about Goals

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

12.

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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

14.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

15.

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

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

18.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

19.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

20.

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

Noble, Charles C.

21.

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dewey, John

25.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

27.

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

Maxwell Maltz

28.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

29.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

32.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Patton, George S.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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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 most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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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

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Robbins, Anthony