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Thursday, 21 August 2008
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"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them." (Davies, Robertson - Genius)

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Browse Quotations about Goals

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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.
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
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.
A set definite objective must be established if we are to accomplish anything in a big way.
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
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.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
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.
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.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
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.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
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.
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.
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!
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.
From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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.
Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.
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.
Goals are dreams with deadlines.
Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
Goals determine what you're going to be.
Goals help you channel your energy into action.
Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
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.
Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related
Goals that are not written down are just wishes.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.
I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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.
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.
I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.
If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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.
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.
If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?
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.
If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
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.
In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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.
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.
It is better to finish something than begin.
It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.
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.
It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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
Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal, My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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.