Motivational Quotes

Goals

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Reed, Scott

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

Prior, Matthew

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

15.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

16.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

17.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

18.

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

19.

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

20.

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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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

22.

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

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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

24.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

27.

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

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

31.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

32.

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

Louis Pasteur

33.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

34.

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

35.

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

36.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Nightingale, Earl

38.

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

39.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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

Brown, Les

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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

42.

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

Proverb, English

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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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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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It is better to finish something than begin.