Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Goals

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

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

Glasgow, Arnold H.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Christina, Queen

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.

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

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.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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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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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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You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

Stone, W. Clement

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We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pilon, Rich

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

Proverb, French

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Collier, Robert

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

Jackson, Bo

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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Nightingale, Earl

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Laurence, Peter