Motivational Quotes

Goals

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

Best Quotes about Goals

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

Famous archer, Howard Hill won all of the 267 archery contests he entered. He could hit a bullseye at 50 feet, then split first arrow with the second. Would it be possible for you to shoot better than him? YES, if he were blindfolded! How can you hit a target you can't see? Even worse, how can you hit a target you don't even have!? You need to have GOALS in your life!

Ziglar, Zig

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Nightingale, Earl

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

Nightingale, Earl

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Rohn, Jim

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Proverb, English

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As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

Brown, Les

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Gide, Andre

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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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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Hansen, Rick

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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

Judd, H. Stanley

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I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you're striving to do your best.

Thomas, Kurt

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You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Lee, Bruce

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

Thomas, Paul G.

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You cannot do a goal. Long-term planning and goal-setting must therefore be complemented by short-term planning. This kind of planning requires specifying activities. You can do an activity. Activities are steps along the way to a goal. Let's say you desire security. Putting $10.00 in the bank or talking to your stockbroker about your investment plans are activities that will move you toward your goal.

Lakein, Alan

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Who walks the fastest, but walks astray, is only furthest from his way.

Prior, Matthew

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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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

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Goals determine what you're going to be.

Erving, Julius

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

Pasteur, Louis

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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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No wind is of service to him that is bound for nowhere.

Proverb, French

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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

Reed, Scott

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Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there.

Josefowitz, Natasha

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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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Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Ross, Diana

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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.

Caine, Mark

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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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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

Foch, Ferdinand

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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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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca