Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Friedsam, Michael

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Prior, Matthew

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Ziglar, Zig

11.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

12.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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

Austin, Tracy

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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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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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Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Louis Pasteur

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

26.

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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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.

Caddy, Eileen

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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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

Noble, Charles C.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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

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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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Insull, Samuel

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi