Motivational Quotes

Goals

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

- Bono, Edward De

Best Quotes about Goals

The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

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

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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.

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

Austin, Tracy

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

Jackson, Bo

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Brown, Les

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

Friedsam, Michael

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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Christina, Queen

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

Carlson, Curtis

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

Browning, Robert

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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

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You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

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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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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People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.