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

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, English

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

Brown, Les

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Seneca

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Seneca

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

18.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Publilius Syrus

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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.

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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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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 get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

30.

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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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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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

34.

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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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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 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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Brown, Les

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