Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Berra, Yogi

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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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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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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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Austin, Tracy

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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.

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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 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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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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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