Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Robert Heinlein

Best Quotes about Goals

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Pilon, Rich

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Robert Heinlein

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

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

Brown, Les

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you to get there. You will be going someplace.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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

18.

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

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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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

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

Seneca

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

Demille, Nelson

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

Proverb, English

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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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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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!

34.

A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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

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If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

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

Jackson, Bo

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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

43.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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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

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Lake, Ricki

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery