Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Goals

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)

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

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

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

10.

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

Lee, Bruce

11.

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

Louis Pasteur

12.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

13.

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

14.

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

Reed, Scott

15.

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

Mcdonald, John

16.

Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

17.

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

18.

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

Robbins, Anthony

19.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

24.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

25.

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

Patton, George S.

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

30.

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

31.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

32.

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

33.

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

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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.

37.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

38.

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

Christina, Queen

40.

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

41.

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

Carlson, Curtis

42.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

43.

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.

44.

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

45.

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

Pasteur, Louis

46.

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

49.

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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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley