Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Demille, Nelson

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Pasteur, Louis

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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

Dewey, John

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!

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

10.

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

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

Lake, Ricki

12.

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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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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Patton, George S.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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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

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

41.

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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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