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

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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)

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''

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

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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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!

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

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Friedsam, Michael

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Prior, Matthew

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Noble, Charles C.

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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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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Louis Pasteur