Motivational Quotes

Goals

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

- Ash, Mary Kay

Best Quotes about Goals

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Stone, W. Clement

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

Walsh, Basil S.

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.

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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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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''

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Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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 need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Patton, George S.

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If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Winfrey, Oprah

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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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You can plant a dream.

Campbell, Anne

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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 goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.

Dodson, Fitzhugh

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

Caddy, Eileen

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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 till the goal is reached. The key is action.

Michael Hanson

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The most important thing about goals is having one.

Abert, Geoffrey F.

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You have to set new goals every day.

Krone, Julie

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It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations.

Einstein, Albert

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The big thing is that you know what you want.

Nightingale, Earl

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

Maxwell Maltz

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A goal properly set is halfway reached.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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.

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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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There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.

Konigsburg, E. L.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.

Young, Edward

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

Collier, Robert

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It is better to finish something than begin.

Proverb

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von