Motivational Quotes

Goals

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Goals

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

DeFrantz, Anita

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Christina, Queen

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

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

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

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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Seneca

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

Reed, Scott

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Lake, Ricki

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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)

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dewey, John