Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Johnson, Percy H.

Best Quotes about Goals

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.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

11.

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 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 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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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

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

25.

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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

27.

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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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

29.

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

Seneca

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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

31.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

50.

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

Berra, Yogi