Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Goals

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

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

Pilon, Rich

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Proverb, English

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Seneca

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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

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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

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Browning, Robert

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

Reed, Scott

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berra, Yogi

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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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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

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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