Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Goals

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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.

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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 first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

10.

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

11.

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)

12.

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

13.

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!

14.

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

Patton, George S.

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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

16.

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

Demille, Nelson

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

Pasteur, Louis

24.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

31.

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

Mcdonald, John

33.

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

Ziglar, Zig

34.

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

Robert Heinlein

35.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Louis Pasteur

39.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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.

45.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

46.

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

47.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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