Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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

Reed, Scott

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Proverb, English

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

Austin, Tracy

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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