Motivational Quotes

Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

- Abert, Geoffrey F.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Berra, Yogi

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

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

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

10.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Brown, Les

12.

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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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 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

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

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Pasteur, Louis

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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

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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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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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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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

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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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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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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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