Motivational Quotes

Goals

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

- Michael Hanson

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Robbins, Anthony

Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Aristotle

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Robbins, Anthony

The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.

Brown, Les

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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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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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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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

20.

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

21.

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

Browning, Robert

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

23.

You get what you set out to do.

Hanson, John

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Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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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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The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time.

Troll, Lillian

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Publilius Syrus

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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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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Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nightingale, Earl

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

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 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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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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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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

Menander of Athens