Motivational Quotes

Goals

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.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Seneca

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

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Noble, Charles C.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

Drucker, Peter F.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Proverb, English

13.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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.

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

17.

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

Pasteur, Louis

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Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Lake, Ricki

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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

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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 can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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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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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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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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

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

Pilon, Rich

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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