Goal QuotesGoal quotes are inspiring because they put goal-setting in proper perspective. Writing a list of goals alone will not reap results unless you apply action in the form of work and persistence. Goals give us focus, but it is important to enjoy the ride and pay attention to detours because they may turn out to be short cuts on the road to achieving your most cherished dreams. Achieving goals takes planning, persistence, focus and enthusiasm. The best self-help goal-focused coaching advice comes from Winston Churchill who said, “Never, never, never, never give up.” You can do it! 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 Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours. Dr. Robert Anthony We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today…if you don’t have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You probably won’t start living happily ever after, but you may start living happily, purposefully, and with gratitude…Goals are gratitude in action. They give us the opportunity to build on what we already have. While achieving goals can be a lengthy process, we can learn to be grateful for each stage in the process of setting and meeting goals. Melody Beattie You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.+ Les Brown Everyone has a purpose in life…a unique gift or special talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of our own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals. Deepak Chopra Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others. Alan Cohen When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. Confucious The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal. Aleister Crowley Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. John Dewey Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. Thomas Alva Edison If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. Albert Einstein A goal without a plan is just a wish. Larry Elder Goals determine what you're going to be. Julius Erving Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes off our goal. Henry Ford What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. Viktor Frankl You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential. Steve Garvey Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that acompanies important ongoing activity. Paul Goodman You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own. Mark Victor Hansen 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 Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals. Dorothy Height Making sure our goals are properly aligned with our passions only makes sense. Josh Hinds If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. Lou Holtz There is nothing like a dream to create the future. Victor Hugo Goals are dreams with deadlines. Diana Scharf Hunt You can use the fanciest computers to gather the numbers, but in the end you have to set a timetable and act. Lee Iacocca If you want something you've never had, you must be willing to do something you've never done. Thomas Jefferson The true American dream not only provides the freedom to use your gifts and talents to achieve your highest goal but also gives you the freedom to fulfill your purpose in life. You are meant to work in ways that suit you, drawing on your natural talents and gifts. This work, when you find it and commit to it -- even if only as a hobby -- is the key to happiness. Dennis Kimbro Often the search proves more profitable than the goal. E. L. Konigsburg If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross This is our goal as writers, I think: to help others have this sense of wonder, of seeing things anew, things that catch us off-guard, that break in our small bordered worlds. When this happens everything feels more spacious. Anne Lamott Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours. Doug Larson It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula LeGuin Leaders aren’t born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal. Vince Lombardi All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. Orison S. Marden All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain’s fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play. Robert Maurer As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement. Robert Maurer Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one’s identity as being of worth and dignity. Rollo May …the tragedy in life does not 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 starts, but is is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Benjamin E. Mays Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan. Paul Meyer 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 By losing your goal - you have lost your way, too! Friedrich Nietzsche The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. Earl Nightingale You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. Charles C. Noble Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity. Louis Pasteur Goals help focus you on areas in both your personal and professional life that are important and meaningful, rather than being guided by what other people want you to be, do, or accomplish. Catherine Pulsifer This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything. Scott Reed Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit. Mary Lou Retton As soon as you truly commit to making something happen, the 'how' will reveal itself. 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. They 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 ultimate goal of being ourselves in an authentic way is actually about loving ourselves in a generous way. Mike Robbins Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Helmut Schmidt If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. Susan Polis Schultz You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try. Kathy Seligman The greatest dreams are always unrealistic. Will Smith There’s no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue. There’s no joy in merely doing things which anyone can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you thought you’d never make. Spirella Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr You have to know what you want to get. Gertrude Stein 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 Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines. Brian Tracy All successful people, men and women, are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Brian Tracy The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them. Denis Waitley Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself. Denis Waitley 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 As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole. Wendy Wasserstein Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy. Not knowing joy, we do not know ourselves. Marianne Williamson I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves. Oprah Winfrey The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. Oprah Winfrey Will what I am about to do, bring me closer to, or take me further from my goals? Zig Ziglar Return from Goal Quotes and Sayings about Goals to Quotes Listed by Subject
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