Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Nightingale, Earl

Best Quotes about 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!

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Browning, Robert

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

Walsh, Basil S.

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

Lee, Bruce

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.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Friedsam, Michael

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Brown, Les

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

Reagan, Ronald

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Publilius Syrus

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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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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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Pasteur, Louis

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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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

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Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best that you can be is a goal that you can set for yourselves.

Lindsay, Bryan

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Reed, Scott

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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

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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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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence, Peter

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les