Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Otto, Herbert A.

Best Quotes about Goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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

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

Robert Heinlein

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Collier, Robert

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

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

Kuhn, Maggie

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

17.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

18.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

19.

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

Kempis, Thomas

20.

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

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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.

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

Reed, Scott

23.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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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

25.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

27.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

28.

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

Mcdonald, John

29.

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 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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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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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.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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!

38.

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

Proverb, English

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Winfrey, Oprah

46.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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