Motivational Quotes

Goals

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

- Foch, Ferdinand

Best Quotes about Goals

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

Insull, Samuel

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

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

10.

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

Prior, Matthew

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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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

16.

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

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

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

Publilius Syrus

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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're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

24.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

25.

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

Browning, Robert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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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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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

33.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Otto, Herbert A.

36.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

37.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy