Quotes about goals

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

— Menander of Athens

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

— Cecil B. De Mille

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

— Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.

— Alfred A. Montapert

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

— John Pierpont Morgan

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

— Thornton T. Munger

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

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Earl Nightingale

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

— Earl Nightingale

The big thing is that you know what you want.

— Earl Nightingale

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

— Charles C. Noble

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

— Greg Norman

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

— Herbert A. Otto

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

— Louis Pasteur

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

— George S. Patton

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.

— J. C. (James Cash) Penney

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.

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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

— Rich Pilon

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

— Matthew Prior

It is better to finish something than begin.

— Proverb

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

— English Proverb

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

— French Proverb

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose -- somehow we win out

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Scott Reed

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

— Anthony Robbins

Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

— Anthony Robbins

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.

— Anthony Robbins

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

— Anthony Robbins

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

— John D. Rockefeller

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.

— Jim Rohn

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

— Jim Rohn

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.

— Diana Ross

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Robert H. Schuller

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

— David J. Schwartz

When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone.

— Thomas Scott

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

— Seneca

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

— Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

— Seneca

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

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

— Ben Stein

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

— W. Clement Stone

You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

— W. Clement Stone

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

— Anne Sophie Swetchine

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.

— Kurt Thomas

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

— Paul G. Thomas

In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

— Henry David Thoreau

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.

— Brian Tracy

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.

— Lillian Troll

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

— Source Unknown

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!

— Source Unknown

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

— Source Unknown

Of toiling, uncheered and alone, That wins us the prizes worth earning, and leads us to goals we would own.

— Source Unknown

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Basil S. Walsh

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

— Ted Williams

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

— Oprah Winfrey

Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

— Edward Young

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.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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.

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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!

— Zig Ziglar

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

— Zig Ziglar

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

— Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

— Zig Ziglar

取法於上，僅得其中，取法於中，不免為下

— Emperor Taizong of Tang

Lets start this week off with goals and plans and getting them accomplished! Lose the word I cant cause you Can!

— BPBEE

When the road ahead seems too long, look back to see how far you’ve come. For, even if the hill before you is steep, the view gives you hope to finish the journey.

— Daniella Kessler

Action will remove the doubt that theory cannot solve.

— Jerry Flanagan

With your goal you make the one.

— Dejan Stojanovic

In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. - Arnold H Glasgow

— Arnold H. Glasgow

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

— Oscar Wilde