Motivational Quotes

Goals

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

Nightingale, Earl

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

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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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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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals -- that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Browning, Robert

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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

Dewey, John

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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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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

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

Brown, Les

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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