Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Dewey, John

If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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.

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

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

Nightingale, Earl

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Seneca

10.

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

Seneca

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Brown, Les

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Brown, Les

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Friedsam, Michael

35.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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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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You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

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

Pasteur, Louis