Motivational Quotes

Goals

It is better to finish something than begin.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Goals

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Thomas, Paul G.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

10.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

11.

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

12.

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

Kissinger, Henry

13.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

17.

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

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Collier, Robert

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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

Reed, Scott

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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

34.

We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

35.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Berra, Yogi

37.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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

48.

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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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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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert