Motivational Quotes

Goals

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Goals

A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.

Mcdonald, John

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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.

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

Collier, Robert

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

10.

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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

12.

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)

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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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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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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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

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

Schwartz, David J.

20.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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

Dewey, John

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

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

Reed, Scott

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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.

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

Berra, Yogi

49.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

Waitley, Denis