Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

Brown, Les

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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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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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Demille, Nelson

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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Ziglar, Zig

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Lee, Bruce

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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

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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

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

38.

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

Reed, Scott

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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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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

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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''

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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!