Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

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Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

Seneca

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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

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

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

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

Walsh, Basil S.

16.

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

17.

The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.

Bristol, Claude M.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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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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.

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

25.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

27.

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

28.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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.

32.

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

Otto, Herbert A.

33.

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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

35.

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

Stone, W. Clement

36.

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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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

38.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

39.

If I've got correct goals, and if I keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line. If I do the right thing right, I'm going to succeed.

Dierdorf, Dan

40.

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

41.

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

Christina, Queen

42.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

43.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.

Fuqua, John

45.

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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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

47.

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''

48.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.

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

Nightingale, Earl

50.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein