Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Caddy, Eileen

Best Quotes about Goals

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

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Patton, George S.

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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

Robbins, Anthony

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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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

Aristotle

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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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!

20.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Ziglar, Zig

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Brown, Les

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre