Motivational Quotes

Goals

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

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

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

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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''

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

11.

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

Demille, Nelson

12.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

13.

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

Jackson, Bo

14.

Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

15.

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.

16.

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

18.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

19.

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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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

21.

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

22.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

23.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

24.

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

25.

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

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What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

27.

You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

28.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

Caine, Mark

29.

There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

30.

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

31.

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

DeFrantz, Anita

32.

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

33.

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

Caddy, Eileen

34.

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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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Brown, Les

39.

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

Pilon, Rich

40.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

42.

It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

43.

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Brown, Les

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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von