Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Caddy, Eileen

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

Collier, Robert

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

Patton, George S.

One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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!

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

Publilius Syrus

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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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 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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Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.

Tracy, Brian

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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.

Jackson, Bo

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People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to -- to work for and hope for.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Kuhn, Maggie

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

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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 don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

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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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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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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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 must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Carroll, Lewis