Quotes about goals

The most important thing about goals is having one.

— Geoffrey F. Abert

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

— Greg Anderson

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

— Aristotle

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

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

— Mary Kay Ash

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

— Tracy Austin

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

— Russell (Wayne) Baker

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

— Yogi Berra

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

— Edward De Bono

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.

— Stephen A. Brennan

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.

— Claude M. Bristol

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

— Les Brown

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

— Les Brown

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

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

— Les Brown

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

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

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

— Les Brown

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

— Les Brown

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

— Robert Browning

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

— Eileen Caddy

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

— Mark Caine

You can plant a dream.

— Anne Campbell

A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, I want to sell 10 accounts this week, and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.

— Curtis Carlson

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

— Curtis Carlson

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

— Thomas Carlyle

I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.

— Jan Carlzon

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

— Lewis Carroll

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.

— Lewis Carroll

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Said the Cat. I don't much care where -- Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.

— Lewis Carroll

It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

— Queen Christina

Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.

— Alexander Clark

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

— Robert Collier

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.

— Robert A. Cook

Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.

— Anita DeFrantz

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

— Nelson Demille

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

— John Dewey

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

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

— Fitzhugh Dodson

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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.

— Peter F. Drucker

It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

— Albert Einstein

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.

— Albert Einstein

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goals determine what you're going to be.

— Julius Erving

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.

— Euripides

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

— Ferdinand Foch

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

— Michael Friedsam

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

— Frederick (Carl) Frieseke

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.

— John Fuqua

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

— Andre Gide

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 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.

— Charles J. Givens

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

— Arnold H. Glasgow

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only those who keep their eye fixed on the far horizon will find their right road.

— Dag Hammarskjold

The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.

— Rick Hansen

You get what you set out to do.

— John Hanson

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 until the goal is reached. The key is action.

— Michael Hanson

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.

— Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

— Napoleon Hill

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

— Sir Edmund Hillary

Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.

— Horace

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

— Diana Scharf Hunt

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

— H. L. Hunt

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

— Samuel Insull

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

— Bo Jackson

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.

— Mrs. Jamieson

You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

— Percy H. Johnson

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.

— Charles ''Tremendous'' Jones

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

— David Starr Jordan

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

— Natasha Josefowitz

The mind's direction is more important than its progress.

— Joseph Joubert

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.

— H. Stanley Judd

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

— Franz Kafka

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

— Thomas Kempis

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

— Henry Kissinger

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

— E. L. Konigsburg

You have to set new goals every day.

— Julie Krone

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

— Maggie Kuhn

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

— Ricki Lake

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.

— Alan Lakein

People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

— Walter Savage Landor

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

— Peter Laurence

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

— Bruce Lee

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.

— Bryan Lindsay

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

— Douglas Lurtan

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

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

— Benjamin E. Mayes

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

— Michael J. Mccarthy

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

— John Mcdonald

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

— John Mcdonald

There is no achievement without goals.

— Robert J. Mckain

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.

— Ronald McNair