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

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.

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

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

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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.

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

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

Austin, Tracy

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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

Collier, Robert

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ziglar, Zig

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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!

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

Patton, George S.

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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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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 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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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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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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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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

Mcdonald, John

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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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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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Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I'll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I'll give you a stock clerk.

Penney, J. C. (James Cash)

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von