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

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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.

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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

Louis Pasteur

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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)

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

Seneca

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Maxwell Maltz

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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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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Reed, Scott

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Mcdonald, 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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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Berra, Yogi

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.