Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

- Erving, Julius

Best Quotes about Goals

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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.

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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 get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Demille, Nelson

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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 can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

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

Robert Heinlein

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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

Nightingale, Earl

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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.

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

Patton, George S.

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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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 person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.