Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Goals

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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Seneca

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Carlyle, Thomas

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

Decide what you want and write your goals. Then convert your goals into positive, present tense statements called affirmations. Affirm your goals each day until they become part of your subconscious mechanism.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

DeFrantz, Anita

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

Hanson, Michael

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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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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.

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Rohn, Jim

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

Winfrey, Oprah

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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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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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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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 man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

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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

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If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Brown, Les

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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Jackson, Bo

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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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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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where --Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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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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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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