Motivational Quotes

Goals

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Goals

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

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

Pasteur, Louis

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

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

Pilon, Rich

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robert Heinlein

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Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. You're eagles! Stretch your wings and fly to the sky.

McNair, Ronald

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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 you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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

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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

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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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

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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

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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Dewey, John

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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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.

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Collier, Robert

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

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.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry