Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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.

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Dewey, John

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcdonald, John

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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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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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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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

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Austin, Tracy

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Seneca

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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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