Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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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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Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Reed, Scott

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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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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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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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

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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

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

Austin, Tracy

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.