Quotes on Goals
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

Washington Irving

First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.

Fitzhugh Dodson

Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Gloria Steinem

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is better than half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

B. C. Forbes

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

Earl Nightingale

Learn from the past, plan for the future, and live in the present.

Duane Alan Hahn (I may not have been the first person to string these words together. If you have seen this quote before, please let me know.)

There is no achievement without goals.

Robert J. Mckain

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

The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.

William Van Horne

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Napoleon Hill

It takes time to save time.

Joe Taylor

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

Michael Friedsam

Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

Napoleon Hill

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Brian Tracy

I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.

David Livingstone

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Les Brown

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

It's never too late to start planning for the future.

Unknown

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

George S. Patton

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Fyodor Dostoevski

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

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

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

Charles C. Noble

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.

J. C. Penney

Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Thomas Carlyle

The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

Phil Weltman

Goals that are not written down are just wishes.

Unknown

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Wishing is mental masturbation. It might feel good, but it accomplishes nothing.

Duane Alan Hahn

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