Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Seneca

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

Collier, Robert

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Berra, Yogi

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

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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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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.

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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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

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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!

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Seneca

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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

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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

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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

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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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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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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt