Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Schwartz, David J.

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.

Brennan, Stephen A.

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.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

You return and again take the proper course, guided by what? -- By the picture in mind of the place you are headed for...

Mcdonald, John

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

Jackson, Bo

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.

Waitley, Denis

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I've surpassed any goal I set for myself as far as my body, my career, and getting married.

Lake, Ricki

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Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

Kathleen Norris

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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

Menander of Athens

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

Nightingale, Earl

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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.

Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart

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It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Toynbee

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It is necessary to try to surpass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Christina, Queen

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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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Otto, Herbert A.

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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.

Givens, Charles J.

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

Dewey, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Rohn, Jim

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

Carlson, Curtis

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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.

Bristol, Claude M.

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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We didn't get great goals. We just scored no-fear goals. Heart goals.

Pilon, Rich

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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.

Hanson, Michael

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

Mayes, Benjamin E.

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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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.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

Carroll, Lewis

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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.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Ruskin, John

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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.

McNair, Ronald

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

Stone, W. Clement

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I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.

Carlson, Curtis

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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.

Brown, Les