Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Carroll, Lewis

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.

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)

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

Hansen, Rick

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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

Seneca

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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

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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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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 most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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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!

21.

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

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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

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Prior, Matthew

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Dewey, John

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Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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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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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, English

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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

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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.

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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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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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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.