Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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.

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

Friedsam, Michael

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Seneca

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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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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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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

18.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

19.

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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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 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

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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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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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Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are means to mobilize the resources and energies of the business for the making of the future.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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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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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

34.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Jackson, Bo

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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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

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.