Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

12.

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

Prior, Matthew

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

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!

15.

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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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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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

19.

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.

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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Demille, Nelson

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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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

25.

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

Kempis, Thomas

26.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

27.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

29.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

31.

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Seneca

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

Ziglar, Zig

35.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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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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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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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

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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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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.

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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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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie