Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

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Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Proverb, French

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Collier, Robert

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

Browning, Robert

11.

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

Seneca

12.

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

Maxwell Maltz

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

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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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

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Laurence, Peter

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Friedsam, Michael

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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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