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The most important thing about goals is having one.
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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.
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Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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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.
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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.
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To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.
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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.
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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.
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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.
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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.
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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.
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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.
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Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.
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Goals help you channel your energy into action.
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A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?
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A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
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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.
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You can plant a dream.
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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.
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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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.
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
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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.
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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.
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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves.
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The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
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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.
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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight.
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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.
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Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
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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.
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Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
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Goals determine what you're going to be.
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.
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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.
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Knowing where you're going is all you need to get there.
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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.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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.
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The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix them in the correct proportions, and you will always produce the same predictable results: in this case financial success. The success strategies for managing money and building wealth are called Money Strategies. By learning to use money strategies as a part of your day-to-day life, financial frustration and failure will become a thing of the past.
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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
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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.
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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.
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You get what you set out to do.
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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.
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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.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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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.
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Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
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Goals are dreams with deadlines.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.
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Set your goals high and don't stop until you get there.
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.
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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.
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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.
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The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.
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The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
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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.
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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
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Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.
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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
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