Motivational Quotes

Goals

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

- J.K. Rowling

Best Quotes about Goals

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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.

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

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

10.

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

Austin, Tracy

11.

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

Louis Pasteur

13.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

14.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

15.

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

Seneca

17.

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

18.

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

Maxwell Maltz

19.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

20.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

23.

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

25.

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

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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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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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

33.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

34.

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

35.

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

36.

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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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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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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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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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carroll, Lewis

42.

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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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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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

47.

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

Lee, Bruce

48.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.