Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

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.

Kathleen Norris

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ziglar, Zig

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Laurence, Peter

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Dewey, John

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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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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

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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

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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.

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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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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

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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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

Carroll, Lewis

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