Motivational Quotes

Goals

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

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Best Quotes about Goals

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

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.

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

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

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Demille, Nelson

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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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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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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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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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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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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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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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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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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

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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 big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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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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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You have to set new goals every day.