Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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''

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Lake, Ricki

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

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

Seneca

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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 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

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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

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Brown, Les

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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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Noble, Charles C.

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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Proverb, English

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