Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Pilon, Rich

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Nightingale, Earl

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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

Brown, Les

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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.

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

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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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Proverb, French

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Seneca

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Reed, Scott

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

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

Collier, Robert

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

Austin, Tracy

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.