Quotes about Goals

"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

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."
-John Dewey

"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

"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

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
-Louis Pasteur

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
-Michael Jordan

"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
-Herodotus

"A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children."
-Betty Friedan

"Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground."
-Ralph Marston

"In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. "
-Robert A. Heinlein

"Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
-Kathleen Norris

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."
-Louis Kronenberger

"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

"The most important rule is to formulate, clearly and precisely, the goal to be reached, and then to retain it unswervingly in mind throughout all the stages of the execution, which are often long and complex."
-Roberto Assagioli

"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity."
-Viktor Frankl

"In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it."
-Marianne Williamson

"Doing nothing gets you nothing."
-Sean Reichle

"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."
-Michelangelo Buonarroti

"Forget goals. Value the process."
-Jim Bouton

"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 Watley

"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

"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."
-Mary Catherine Bateson

"Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. Prepare yourself in every way you can by increasing your knowledge and adding to your experience, so that you can make the most of opportunity when it occurs."
-Mario Andretti

"We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve."
-Maxwell Maltz

"Any person who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already defined his own limitations."
-Cavett Robert

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

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

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