Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

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

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

Seneca

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

Laurence, Peter

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

10.

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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

12.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, English

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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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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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

19.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

20.

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

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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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

40.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

41.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nightingale, Earl

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Stone, W. Clement