Thursday 8 November 2012

Goals - Quotes

A goal is not always meant to be reached. It often serves simply as something to aim at. - Bruce Lee

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on. - Tom Morris

A goal properly set is halfway reached. - Zig Ziglar

A goal, whatever it may be, is what gives meaning to our existence. It is the carrot of the stick that keeps us striving – that keeps us interested – that gives us a reason for getting out of bed in the morning. - Unknown

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. - Victoria Addino

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person. - Les Brown

Be stubborn about your goals, but flexible about your methods. - Unknown

Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams. - Les Brown

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. - Mario Andretti

Determine what specific goal you want to achieve. Then dedicate yourself to its attainment with unswerving singleness of purpose, the trenchant zeal of a crusader. - Paul J. Meyer

Do not set your goals by what other people see important. Your goals in life are only important to you and those who love to see you succeed. Guard them well and only share them with the right people. - Unknown

Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any. - Danielle Fotopoulis

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

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. - Brian Tracy

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. - Tony Robbins

Goals are dreams with deadlines. - Diana Scharf Hunt

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical. - Les Brown

Goals are simply tools to focus your energy in positive directions, these can be changed as your priorities change, new one added, and others dropped. - O. Carl Simonton

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement. - Brian Tracy

Goals help you channel your energy into action. - Les Brown

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

Goals. There’s no telling what you can do when you get inspired by them. There’s no telling what you can do when you believe in them. There’s no telling what will happen when you act upon them. - Jim Rohn

If a goal is one that is important enough for you to seek, have the courage to take the first step in that direction. - Unknown

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. - Dan Dierdorf

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. - Les Brown

If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal. - Zig Ziglar

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be. - Abraham Maslow

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach. - Benjamin E. Mays

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

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Men do not succeed in business or in life, no matter how intelligent they may be, no matter how sharply their aptitudes are defined, no matter how brilliantly they may be educated unless they are oriented toward the proper goals and have the drive or motivating force to succeed. - WalIace H Wulfeck

Most “impossible” goals can be met simply by breaking them down into bite size chunks, writing them down, believing them, and then going full speed ahead as if they were routine. - Don Lancaster

My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be. - Dr. Wayne W Dyer

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. - Thomas Jefferson

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

People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you’ll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. - Tony Robbins

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. - Maxwell Maltz

People with goals succeed because they know where you are going. - Basil S. Walsh

Pursue your goals with boundless enthusiasm and energy, and you can turn your dreams into reality. - Unknown

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. - Bo Jackson

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. - Alexander Graham Bell

The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit. - Antoine de Saint

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. - Unknown

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. - Charles J. Givens

The most important thing about goals is having one. - Geoffrey F. Abert

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 first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. - Tony Robbins

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it. - Jordan Belfort

The only way of arriving at your farthest goal is to put your strength and enjoyment into arriving at your nearest. - Unknown

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

The purpose of goals is to focus our attention. The mind will not reach toward achievement until it has clear objectives. The magic begins when we set goals. It is then that the switch is turned on, the current begins to flow, and the power to accomplish becomes a reality. - Unknown

The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. - Denis Waitley

There is no achievement without goals. - Robert J McKain

There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today. - Noel DeJesus

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

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. - Robert M. Pirsig 

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

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. - Napoleon Hill

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. - Confucius

With hope, dignity, a little madness and some belief in the self, we can make great strides toward achieving our goals. - Leo Buscaglia

Without a goal, a life is nothing. Sometimes the goal becomes a man's entire life, an all-consuming passion. - Unknown 

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

Without goals, you will end up going nowhere, or, you will end up following someone else’s map! Develop your map today – set your goals and focus! - Catherine Pulsifer

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - Les Brown

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

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. - Charles C. Noble

You seldom get what you go after unless you know in advance what you want. Goals determine what you are going to be. - Unknown
Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life. - Les Brown

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