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

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, changes one frame of mind and for the moment realizes itself.

Jamieson, Mrs.

You cannot make it as a wandering generality. You must become a meaningful specific.

Ziglar, Zig

The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.

Collier, Robert

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

A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals.

Stein, Ben

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

Menander of Athens

Everyone has a success mechanism and a failure mechanism. The failure mechanism goes off by itself. The success mechanism only goes off with a goal. Every time we write down and talk about a goal we push the button to start the success mechanism.

Jones, Charles ''Tremendous''

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

Carroll, Lewis

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A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Kissinger, Henry

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.

Anderson, Greg

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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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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Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it.

Friedsam, Michael

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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 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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The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot accomplish whatever goal you set for yourself.

Mccarthy, Michael J.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Glasgow, Arnold H.

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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

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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 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

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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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You may not accomplish every goal you set -- no one does -- but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly.

Brown, Les

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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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You are not likely to get anywhere in particular if you don't know where you want to go.

Johnson, Percy H.

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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

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Noble, Charles C.

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Goals should be SMART: S = Specific M = Measurable A = Assignable (who does what) R = Realistic T = Time-Related

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

J.K. Rowling

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There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

Kuhn, Maggie

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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