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Goals

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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.

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

Browning, Robert

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Stone, W. Clement

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

Lake, Ricki

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Kissinger, Henry

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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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 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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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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