Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Publilius Syrus

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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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 get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

18.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

25.

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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

Austin, Tracy

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

32.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Reed, Scott

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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Seneca