Motivational Quotes

Goals

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Goals

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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

Robert Heinlein

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

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

10.

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

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!

14.

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

15.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

16.

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

17.

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

Pasteur, Louis

18.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

20.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

21.

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

Nightingale, Earl

23.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis

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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

25.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

28.

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

Berra, Yogi

29.

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

Seneca

30.

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

Robbins, Anthony

31.

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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

35.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

Brown, Les

37.

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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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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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

40.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

41.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

42.

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

Proverb, English

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Browning, Robert

47.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie