Motivational Quotes

Goals

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Goals

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)

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

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

Lee, Bruce

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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

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

10.

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

Carlson, Curtis

11.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

12.

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.

13.

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

14.

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

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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!

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

21.

Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

22.

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.

23.

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

Mcdonald, John

24.

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

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

Laurence, Peter

26.

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

27.

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

Patton, George S.

28.

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

29.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

30.

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

Menander of Athens

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

34.

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

Maxwell Maltz

35.

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Otto, Herbert A.

36.

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

Seneca

37.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

Brennan, Stephen A.

38.

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

Prior, Matthew

39.

Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

40.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

41.

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

42.

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''

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Christina, Queen

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Dewey, John