Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

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

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

Louis Pasteur

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Mcdonald, John

Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

10.

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.

11.

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

14.

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

Proverb, English

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

17.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Browning, Robert

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

34.

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

Insull, Samuel

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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

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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Jackson, Bo

42.

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!

43.

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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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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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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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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