Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kempis, Thomas

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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.

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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

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.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Austin, Tracy

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

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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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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Seneca

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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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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Noble, Charles C.

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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 are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Reed, Scott

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

Caddy, Eileen

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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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