Motivational Quotes

Goals

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

- Carlzon, Jan

Best Quotes about Goals

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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

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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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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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You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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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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The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.

Denis Watley

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Collier, Robert

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

Thomas, Paul G.

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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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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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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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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, French

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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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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.

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

Kafka, Franz