Motivational Quotes

Goals

You get what you set out to do.

- Hanson, John

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Laurence, Peter

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

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

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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.

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

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Stone, W. Clement

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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 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

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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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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

Dewey, John

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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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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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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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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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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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A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

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

Jackson, Bo

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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

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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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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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