Motivational Quotes

Goals

You have to set new goals every day.

- Krone, Julie

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Robert Heinlein

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

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

Berra, Yogi

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Reed, Scott

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Menander of Athens

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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

Publilius Syrus

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt