Motivational Quotes

Goals

You can plant a dream.

- Campbell, Anne

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Patton, George S.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

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

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.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Dewey, John

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

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

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

Pilon, Rich

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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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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Demille, Nelson

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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

Nightingale, Earl

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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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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