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

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

Aristotle

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz

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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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

Menander of Athens

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

Mille, Cecil B. De

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Insull, Samuel

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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

10.

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.

Carroll, Lewis

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The most important thing you can do to achieve your goals is to make sure that as soon as you set them, you immediately begin to create momentum. The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without firs taking some form of positive action toward its attainment.

Robbins, Anthony

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Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteur

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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

Hillary, Sir Edmund

16.

Take heed you do not find what you do not seek.

Proverb, English

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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.

Troll, Lillian

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

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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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

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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.

Hill, Napoleon

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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Robert Heinlein

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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dodson, Fitzhugh

28.

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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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Pilon, Rich

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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.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Seneca

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

Austin, Tracy

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Brown, Les

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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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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.

42.

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

45.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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There is no achievement without goals.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

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

DeFrantz, Anita

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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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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.

Lindsay, Bryan