Motivational Quotes

Goals

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

- Foch, Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Goals

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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.

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

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

Nightingale, Earl

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

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

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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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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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Reed, Scott

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Proverb, English

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle