Inspirations

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

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

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

- 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

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

- Yogi Berra

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

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

- 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

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

- 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

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

- Les Brown

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

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

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

- Robert Collier

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 Dostoevski

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

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

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

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

- Arnold H Glasgow

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A distracted existence leads us to no 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

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Thomas A Kempis

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

- Henry Kissinger

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

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

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

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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.

- Alfred A Montapert

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

- Thornton T Munger

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

- Earl Nightingale

The big thing is that you know what you want.

- Earl Nightingale

Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal.

- Earl Nightingale

People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.

- Earl Nightingale

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

- Charles C Noble

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

- Greg Norman

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

- Herbert A Otto

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

- Matthew Prior

It is better to finish something than begin.

- Proverb

No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

- French Proverb

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose, somehow we win out

- Ronald Reagan

This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.

- Scott Reed

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.

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Anthony Robbins

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

- Anthony Robbins

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.

- Jim Rohn

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

- Jim Rohn

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.

- Diana Ross

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

- Robert H Schuller

Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.

- David J Schwartz

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

- Seneca

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

- Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

- Seneca

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

- Ben Stein

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.

- W Clement Stone

You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination.

- W Clement Stone

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

Until input thought is linked to a goal purpose there can be no intelligent accomplishment.

- Paul G Thomas

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

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.

- Lillian Troll

Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

- Source Unknown

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.

- Source Unknown

Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant's into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don't just think it -- ink it!

- Source Unknown

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.

- Source Unknown

What three things do you want to accomplish this year? Write them down and place them on your refrigerator for inspiration all year long.

- Source Unknown

The only way to reach your long range goals is through achieving your short range objectives.

- Source Unknown

If you don't care where you're going any road will get you there

- Source Unknown

Have an aim in life, then don't forget to pull the trigger.

- Source Unknown

Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

- Source Unknown

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

- Source Unknown

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

If you don't know where you are going. How can you expect to get there?

- Basil S Walsh

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.''

- Ted Williams

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.

- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

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.

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

- Zig Ziglar

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

- Zig Ziglar

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!

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Zig Ziglar

Inspire-U-2-Set-Goals

Get Inspired for Happiness Strategy 2: Cultivating Optimism

The most important thing about goals is having one.

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.

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.

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

Give yourself something to work toward, constantly.

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

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

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.

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

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

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

You can plant a dream.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

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.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

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

Goals determine what you're going to be.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

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

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

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.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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.

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

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

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.

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.

You get what you set out to do.

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.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

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.

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.

Goals are dreams with deadlines.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You have to set new goals every day.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

There is no achievement without goals.

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.

No wind favors him who has no destined port.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

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.

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.