Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Aristotle

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

Bono, Edward De

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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

Patton, George S.

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

Seneca

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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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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Robert Heinlein

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.