Motivational Quotes

Goals

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

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 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.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

10.

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

Louis Pasteur

11.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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

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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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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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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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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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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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I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

Carlzon, Jan

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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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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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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Proverb, French

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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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