Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Demille, Nelson

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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Brown, Les

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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.

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

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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Reed, Scott

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

Seneca

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

Collier, Robert

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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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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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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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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

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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

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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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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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewey, John

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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.

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis