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• Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Keys, Generosity, Goal

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• When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Generosity, Goal, Judging

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• Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Self, Generosity

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• I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Self Esteem, Generosity, Goal

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• Although goal setting can clearly be overdone, only a few people are overly involved with goals and goal setting; most people do far too little goal setting, including the reflecting that precedes the setting of such goals. Too many marriages have financial goals but not other explicit goals. Yet the gospel is certainly goal-oriented.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Financial Goals, People, Generosity

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• The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Goal, World

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• Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

  Greg Kinnear

  Opportunity, Goal, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Happy, New Year, Believe

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

  Robert H. Schuller

  Business, Ego Problem, Goal

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• I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

  Taylor Lautner

  Believe, Goal, Nowhere To Go

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• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

  Hugh Laurie

  Jobs, Children, Goal

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• A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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• Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.

  Alveda King

  Lying, Racism, Evil

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• I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

  Kim Kardashian

  Goal, Want

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• As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

  Paul Kane

  Patience, Persistence, Winning

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• Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.

  John H. Johnson

  Dream, Giving, Goal

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• Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Years, Two

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.58, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I enjoy hard work, I love setting goals and achieving them.

  Jewel

  Hard Work, Goal, Achieve

  "Jewel: Sweet & Wild With Child". Fit Pregnancy and Baby Interview, www.fitpregnancy.com. July 6, 2011.

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• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  Jack Kemp

  Jobs, Opportunity, Goal

  "In Their Own Words; Excerpts From The Remarks By Housing Secretary Kemp", www.nytimes.com. August 19, 1992.

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• My goals have changed throughout my life. At one time it was winning awards, selling out concert dates, selling more albums than anyone else. Now, my goals are to see my grandchildren grown, live a long and healthy life with my family and friends and travel the world.

  Reba McEntire

  Grandchildren, Winning, Awards

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• My goals are to tell meaningful stories through songs and touch people's lives... and hopefully make a living doing it.

  Jordin Sparks

  Meaningful, Song, People

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• I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.

  Nikki Sixx

  Goal, Mountain, Want

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. November 8, 2007.

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Robert H. Schuller (1986). “Move Ahead with Possibility Thinking”, Jove

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• My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.

  Jessica Savitch

  Goal, Literature, Currents

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Thorndike Pr

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