Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Brown, Les

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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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

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

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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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Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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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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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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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

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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

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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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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

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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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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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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

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl