Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is no achievement without goals.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Goals

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Friedsam, Michael

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

Carroll, Lewis

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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.

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

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

10.

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

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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

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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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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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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''

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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

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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Percy H.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Nightingale, Earl

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie