Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

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''

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

Christina, Queen

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Reed, Scott

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Collier, Robert

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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

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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 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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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Hill, Napoleon

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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

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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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If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Proverb, French

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Patton, George S.

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