Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Goals

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Thomas, Paul G.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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)

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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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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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

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Proverb, French

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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

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Seneca

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Brown, Les

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay