Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

- Reed, Scott

Best Quotes about Goals

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

Seneca

Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewey, John

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

Seneca

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Cook, Robert A.

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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

Insull, Samuel

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

Reed, Scott

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

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Berra, Yogi

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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''

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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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

Collier, Robert

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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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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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