Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Austin, Tracy

Best Quotes about Goals

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

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

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

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

10.

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

11.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

12.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

13.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

14.

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

15.

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

Seneca

16.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

17.

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

Patton, George S.

18.

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

Reed, Scott

19.

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

Publilius Syrus

20.

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.

21.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

22.

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

23.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

24.

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

25.

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

26.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

32.

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

33.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

34.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

35.

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

Pilon, Rich

36.

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

37.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Christina, Queen

39.

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

40.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

41.

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

Menander of Athens

42.

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

Carlson, Curtis

43.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

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

Brown, Les

45.

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

Dewey, John

46.

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

Brown, Les

47.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Pasteur, Louis