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

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

Setting goals for your game is an art. The trick is in setting them at the right level neither too low nor too high.

Norman, Greg

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.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Laurence, Peter

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

Pilon, Rich

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

Williams, Ted

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

Ruskin, John

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

Louis Pasteur

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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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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.

Carroll, Lewis

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We're all pilgrims on the same journey-but some pilgrims have better road maps.

Demille, Nelson

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Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Brown, Les

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Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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No wind favors him who has no destined port.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

Cook, Robert A.

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Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Proverb, French

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Nightingale, Earl

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Brown, Les

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

Josefowitz, Natasha

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You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.

Noble, Charles C.

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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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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

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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.

Fuqua, John

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Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

Ash, Mary Kay

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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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Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

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Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.

Zaharias, Babe Didrikson

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Setting an exciting goal is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point-its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms.

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

Dewey, John

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Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

Publilius Syrus

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

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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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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.

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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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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