Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Seneca

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

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Kempis, Thomas

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

10.

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

Insull, Samuel

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

14.

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

Nightingale, Earl

15.

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

Jackson, Bo

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

19.

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

20.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

21.

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

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carroll, Lewis

24.

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

25.

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

Austin, Tracy

26.

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

27.

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

Reed, Scott

28.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

30.

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

31.

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

Brown, Les

32.

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

33.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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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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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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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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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.

40.

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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

42.

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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 are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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